Newton v. Compton

How courts have described this case

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• indicating that the burden is on the employee to show that his or her mealtime was compensable
• indicating that the burden is on the employee to show that his or her mealtime was compensable
• explaining that compensation is not required when an interrupted meal time can be taken at another time during a shift
• finding that plaintiffs failed to sustain their burden to offer “sufficient evidence to show the amount and extent of work” for which they were not compensated when their “evidence of meal-time interruptions [was] of a very general nature”
• “Not only must defendant prove each specific element of the exemption [from FLSA overtime], but courts are to interpret the FLSA overtime provisions liberally and the exemptions narrowly.”
• “OPM’s regulations and interpretations must be consistent with the FLSA itself and with the standards set by DOL for the private sector. While OPM regulations are controlling ... the court can also consider DOL’s regulations.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).