Will the New Overtime Rules Really Hurt Workers?

In 2008, Nancy Soehnle, a gas-station supervisor in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, sued her employer, Hess, for unpaid overtime. Neither party disputed that Soehnle worked seventy hours a week, mostly on non-managerial tasks, and was paid an annual salary of thirty-four thousand dollars, which amounted to about nine dollars per hour. The suit was unsuccessful. It didn’t matter, the Third Circuit ruled on appeal, that she “spent 85% of her time operating the cash register.” She was a “bona fide executive,” not entitled to extra pay.

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