FLSA – Sufficiency of Evidence

By: Derek Hawkins//September 26, 2016//

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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: James Melton v. Tippecanoe County

Case No.: 14-3599

Officials: MANION and KANNE, Circuit Judges, and PEPPER, District Judge. *

Focus: FLSA – Sufficiency of Evidence

After he disregarded an order from his supervisor that he could not change his schedule to make up for missed time, Plaintiff James Melton was discharged from his job at the Tippecanoe County Surveyor’s Office. Melton later filed suit against the County, alleging that during his time there, he had arrived early and worked through lunch every day and was not compensated for overtime in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The district court granted summary judgment to the County because Melton had not designated sufficient evidence to find that he worked more than forty hours in a workweek. We affirm

Affirmed

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