Legal Opinion
Luis Vega v. New Forest Home Cemetery, LLC
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 15, 2017No. 16-3119PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
Luis Vega filed this suit alleging that his former employer, New Forest Home Cemetery, LLC (“New Forest”), by failing to pay him for his final two weeks of work, violated his right under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, 29 U.S.C. § 206(b), to compensation at the minimum wage. The district court entered summary judgment in favor of New Forest, reasoning that Vega had not exhausted the grievance procedure specified by the collective bargaining agreement between New Forest and the union representing its workforce before he filed suit. R. 25. Because the collective…
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