Legal Opinion
Betty Black v. SettlePou, P.C.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 11, 2013No. 12-10972PublishedCited by 212 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*495JAMES E. GRAVES, JR., Circuit Judge:
Betty Black is a former employee of SettlePou, and after a jury found that SettlePou had misclassified Black as exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Black became eligible for an award of unpaid overtime wages. In computing the overtime payment award, the district court applied the “Fluctuating Workweek” (FWW) method of calculating overtime by multiplying the number of overtime hours Black worked by one-half of her regular rate of pay. Black contends that the FWW method of calculating overtime is not warranted here, and we agree. We therefore…
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