Terry J. Kennedy v. Commonwealth Edison Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Identifying a few random, isolated, and negligible deductions is not enough to show an actual practice or policy of treating as hourly the theoretically salaried.”
• explaining that the 2004 regulations do not apply retroactively
• affirming finding that an employee was exempt where the employer paid same amount of money but deducted personal leave time when an employee chose to take an “unpaid” day off
• “the employer may take -advantage of the regulation only if it objectively intended to pay its employees on a salary basis”
• “Since the plaintiffs’ [Fair Labor Standards Act] claims fail, their related state law claims under [the Illinois Minimum Wage Law] must fail as well.”
• “It is the 6 No. 2021AP538 employer’s burden to establish that an employee is exempt from the FLSA’s overtime requirements.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).