Collins v. Zella Mining Co.

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• holding that CEO could be individually liable for FLSA violations where, among other things, CEO made the decision to characterize the plaintiffs as exempt
• finding that plaintiffs were entitled to only a .5 overtime premium for hours worked in excess of 40 per week under the fluctuating workweek (“FWW”) method where a fixed salary covered all hours worked and non-discretionary bonuses were based on pumping, not on hours worked
• “[I]t is the employer’s burden to demonstrate that the employees exclusively drove vehicles greater than 10,000 pounds during a workweek.”
• weekly deliveries of supplies that “flow” in interstate commerce counts as driving a motor vehicle in interstate commerce for the purposes of the Small Vehicle Exception

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).