Nashua Young Women's Christian Ass'n v. State, Department of Labor

This is an appeal by the plaintiff, the Nashua Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA), from an order of the Superior Court {Manias, J.) affirming a ruling of the defendant, the New Hampshire Department of Labor (Department), requiring the YWCA to pay past due wages in the sum of $14,219.96 to 109 part-time employees in accordance with the two-hour minimum pay requirement of RSA 275:43-a. For the reasons that follow, we reverse.

The following facts are stipulated to by the parties. Between July 1985 and May 1989, the YWCA employed part-time fitness instructors who were routinely scheduled…