1st Circuit Reverses Judgment For Employer In Dispute Over Serial Comma

Mealey's (March 22, 2017, 3:11 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — Noting that the lack of a serial comma in a list of activities exempted from Maine’s overtime law caused the present dispute, the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on March 13 reversed summary judgment for a Maine dairy company in a wage-and-hour lawsuit filed by delivery drivers, finding that state law requires that the exemption must be construed in the narrow manner favored by the drivers (Kevin O’Connor, et al. v. Oakhurst Dairy, et al., No. 16-1901, 1st Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 4392)....

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