FAYAD v. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA MARYBELLE FAYAD, Case No. 2:23-cv-00032-JDW v. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, MEMORANDUM In most workplaces, some employees manage the business’s affairs and exercise broad discretion over what they do and how and when they do it. For them, “[t]ime is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” Douglas Adams, 18 (1986). Employees like that are exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime requirements. But other employees don’t have that kind of discretion. They have to do what they’re told, or the tasks they perform are not…