Stone v. William Andacht, Inc.

Two former employees of the defendant sue to recover overtime wages claimed to be due them under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (U. S. Code, tit. 29, § 201 et seq.). To the denial that there was any uncompensated overtime, the defendant adds that one employee (Andacht) was not entitled to the benefits of the statute — he was an exempt employee — and that the other, Stone, is barred from suing under the act, he having been awarded an amount for overtime compensation after an arbitration proceeding pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement, the award being confirmed by and ripening…