11th Circuit Finds Onion Packing Workers Owed Overtime, Vacates Liquidated Damages

Mealey's (April 8, 2019, 1:43 PM EDT) -- ATLANTA — An 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel in an April 5 unpublished opinion ruled that workers that package onions grown on other farms don’t fall within the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) agricultural exemptions and are owed overtime; however, it vacated a liquidated damages award and remanded for the trial court to consider a second argument by the employer that it believed it was complying with the FLSA (R. Alexander Acosta v. Bland Farms Production & Packing, LLC, et al., No. 17-15322, 11th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 10118)....