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8th Circuit Refuses To Follow NLRB - Enforces FLSA Class Action Waiver
Jason E. Barsanti,Jason A. Geller,Joseph E. Tilson, January 15, 2013
In Owen v. Bristol Care, Inc., the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to follow recent decisions by the National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB") that class action waivers in arbitration agreements were unenforceable, and instead enforced a class action waiver in an employee's...

Supreme Court Finds Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives Are Exempt From Overtime Under The Fair Labor Standards Act
Jason A. Geller,Jeremy J. Glenn,Joseph E. Tilson, July 6, 2012
In Christopher v. SmithKline Beecham Corp., the U.S. Supreme Court has just issued its much-anticipated decisionholding that pharmaceutical sales representatives ("PSRs") are not entitled to overtime wages because they qualify as "outside salesmen" under the Fair Labor Standards...

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