Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor v. Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, State of Alabama

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that employer must do more than “simply continue to apprise [the employees]” of policy against working overtime
• recognizing that “[a]n employer ‘does not rid himself of that duty because the extent of the business may preclude his personal supervision[] and compel reliance on subordinates’”
• holding employer had constructive knowledge of overtime despite policy and irregular off-site hours because employer could have acquired actual knowledge of work through the exercise of reasonable diligence
• holding employer had constructive knowledge of overtime despite policy and irregular off-site hours because employer could have acquired actual knowledge of work through the exercise of reasonable diligence
• holding employer had constructive knowledge of overtime despite policy and irregular off-site hours because employer could have acquired actual knowledge of work through the exercise of reasonable diligence
• finding constructive knowledge when the supervisors were “specifically instructed” to “closely monitor” hours to ensure compliance with policy and when the employer knew that the monitoring was not being accomplished based on a previous study

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).