Dye v. McIntyre Floral Co.

This suit is brought by employees of defendant company for an alleged deficiency in wages paid them, on the ■theory that they are entitled to the benefits of the “Fair Labor Standards Act” of 1938', being Title 29, section 201, et seq., of the U. S. C. A. The chancellor sustained a demurrer raising the defense that the complainants were employed in agriculture and engaged in handling “agricultural or horticultural commodities for market;” that being so employed they are excluded from the act by its exempting provisions.

The act expressly excludes, “any employee employed in agriculture.”…