June 03, 2021
A fire protection company won't immediately get another shot to argue that a lower court misapplied a standard for estimating unpaid hours, after a Fifth Circuit panel refused to reconsider its decision affirming the ruling in a wage case by the U.S. Department of Labor.
March 29, 2021
A Fifth Circuit panel should rehear a fire protection company's argument in an unpaid wages case brought by the Department of Labor that a lower court misapplied a standard for estimating unpaid hours when timesheet data is missing, the company urged.
March 04, 2021
A recent Fifth Circuit ruling against a company that failed to pay overtime highlighted the Fair Labor Standards Act’s requirement that employers maintain payroll records. Here, Law360 provides practice tips for accounting for work hours.
February 11, 2021
A federal district court properly applied the Mt. Clemens standard for estimating unpaid hours when time sheet data is missing, the Fifth Circuit ruled in a case brought by the U.S. Department of Labor seeking back wages for dozens of fire protection company employees, saying the company hadn't sufficiently disproved the estimates.