Todd Pioch v. IBEX Engineering Services, Inc.

JORDAN, Circuit Judge:

The Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq., generally requires employers to pay minimum wages and overtime compensation to their employees, but some employees are exempt from its coverage. The exemption at issue in this appeal — the so-called computer employee exemption — provides that the FLSA does not cover an hourly computer software engineer who performs certain duties and who “is compensated at a rate of not less than $27.63 an hour.” 29 U.S.C. § 213(a)(17). The main question we address is whether an hourly computer employee who is otherwise exempt under…