7th Cir. OKs Half-Time Damages for Employee Misclassified as Exempt

An employer that misclassified a worker as exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act owed her back overtime at only half her regular rate of pay -- rather than the standard time and a half -- because she was paid a fixed salary intended to cover all hours she worked in a week, the 7th U.

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