Bayer v. Courtemanche

SMITH, District Judge.

Plaintiff was employed by an independent contractor furnishing cafeteria services to production workers in a manufacturing plant engaged in the production of goods for commerce.

Plaintiff was employed for more than forty hours per week on a straight-time, weekly basis, with no provision for payment of one and one-half times the hourly rate for hours worked in excess of forty.

If plaintiff’s employment was in an occupation “necessary to the production of goods for commerce,” he may recover, for he was not paid in accordance with the requirements of the Act.1 Act of June 25,…