Piquniq Management Corp. v. Reeves

OPINION

BRYNER, Justice.

Jesse A. Reeves worked sixty weeks for Piquniq Management Company at an annual salary of $57,876. He worked a two-weeks-on/two-weeks-off schedule and averaged ninety-eight-hour weeks while on the job, but received no overtime pay. Reeves sued PMC for overtime wages and won. To determine Reeves’s damages, the trial court converted his salary to a regular hourly rate. It used this rate as a basis for computing his overtime earnings. Without computing his straighttime or total wages on the same basis, the court awarded Reeves the entire amount of his overtime earnings as…