October 24, 2016
A Texas federal judge on Friday approved a $625,000 settlement ending wage and overtime claims by a class of Gold's Gym trainers but refused to grant the gym chain's request to toss a prior ruling that the trainers were entitled to extra pay under the gym's commission system, since the commissions on one-hour training count as an hourly wage.
March 24, 2016
A Texas federal court handed a quick win Wednesday to a class of trainers claiming Gold's Gym unfairly denied them overtime, ruling their pay did not comprise "bona fide commissions" under the Fair Labor Standards Act according to the court's new five-prong test.