Purdham v. Fairfax County School Board

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• noting that the questiOn Of whether a worker is an employee under' FLSA is one of laiv
• holding that a School Board’s payment of a fixed stipend to a golf coach was a nominal fee where: (1) the stipend amount did not change based on either how much time and effort the coach expended on coaching activities or how successful the team was; and (2
• “[W]hat is required is that the individual must be motivated 15 by civic, charitable or humanitarian reasons, at least in part.”
• yearly stipends of $2,114 and $2,073 did not cause loss of golf coach’s volunteer status
• citation and internal USCA11 Case: 23-11065 Document: 40-1 Date Filed: 03/12/2024 Page: 8 of 14 8 Opinion of the Court 23-11065 quotation marks omitted
• “[T]he Supreme Court has cautioned that the FLSA ‘must not be interpreted or applied in a narrow, grudging manner[.]’ ” (quoting Tenn. Coal, 321 U.S. at 597, 64 S.Ct. 698)

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