United States Tenth Circuit

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 -- the functional equivalent of hourly wages.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/01/2005
• Published 03/01/2005

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.