Legal Opinion
Fiore v. PPG Industries, Inc.
Court of Appeals of Washington
Decided July 2, 2012No. 66956-7-IPublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDwyer, J.
¶1 Where an employee’s duties consist principally of manual labor and individual retail sales, the employee’s primary duty is not “promoting sales” pursuant to our state’s minimum wage laws. Relatedly, such duties do not constitute administrative operations exempting the employee from the overtime wage protections of the Washington Minimum Wage Act1 (MWA or Act). Here, PPG Industries Inc. classified its employee, Andrew Fiore, as an administrative employee exempt from the requirements of the MWA and, accordingly, did not pay to Fiore overtime wages as mandated by the Act. Because PPG cannot…
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