· 2/13/1975
Charles R. Mednick v. Albert Enterprises, Inc., and Bal Harbour Towers, Inc.
Citations
- 508 F.2d 297
- 1975 U.S. App. LEXIS 16099
- 22 Wage & Hour Cas. (BNA) 166
How courts have described this case
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- holding that an employer cannot “reliev[e] itself of its duties under the [FLSA] by granting [a worker] some legal powers where the economic reality is that the worker is not and never has been independently in the business which the employer would have [her] operate”
- “[T]he test of ‘economic reality’ goes to the question of whether the individual ... was in fact an independent business [woman]”
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Judges: Thornberry, Goldberg, Godbold
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