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Supreme Court Finds Pharmaceutical Representatives Exempt From Overtime

By Bill Pokorny on June 18, 2012
Posted in Exemptions

Pharmaceutical sales rep iStock_000005240599XSmall.jpgThis morning the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that pharmaceutical representatives are “outside salesmen” exempt from the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Christopher v. Smithkline Beecham Corp. (.pdf). 

This has been a hotly-contested issue in the courts and the subject of a split between the federal appellate courts, with the Ninth…

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