United States Tenth Circuit

Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, an employer's practice of prospectively changing salaries does not convert salaried employees to hourly employees entitled to overtime rates unless the purported "salary" becomes a sham (i.e., the function equivalent of hourly wages).

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/02/2005
• Published 02/02/2005

Judges

• HARTZ, Circuit Judge., Before HARTZ, McKAY, and O'BRIEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Steven J. Merker of Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Denver, CO (Gregory S. Tamkin of Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Denver, CO;  Robert P. Davis and David M. Gossett of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, Washington, D.C., with him on the briefs), for Defendant-Appellant., Gerald L. Bader, Jr. of Bader & Associates, LLC, Aurora, CO (Renee B. Taylor of Bader & Associates, LLC, Aurora, CO;  Franklin D. Azar and Jon Neil Barclay of Franklin D. Azar & Associates, Aurora, CO, with him on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellees.