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Mar 18, 2015

BIGGER RIGS * USA: For the trucking industry

* New Jersey - Bigger rigs are better in the trucking industry, says the Third Circuit

-- The Third Circuit joined other circuits in its ruling this week that trucking companies are not relieved from the payment of overtime wages to their employees whose job “in whole or in part” affects the safe operation of vehicles lighter than 10,000 pounds. In general, the Fair Labor Standards Act provides that employers are required to pay employees 150% of wages for the hours they work over 40 hours per week. Prior to this decision, some trucking companies believed, as the defendant in this case, that the Motor Carrier Exemption excused payments to truck drivers for overtime... The Exemption generally provides that a trucking company is not required to pay overtime pursuant to the FLSA for any employee who falls within the Secretary of Transportation’s regulatory authority. This is consistent with other federal statutes that recognize that motor carriers are in a different position than other employers. One of note is the Fair Credit Reporting Act which has an extremely narrow trucking industry exception... Newark,NJ,USA - Garden State Gavel, by IRINA ELGART -MARCH 13, 2015

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