Executive Decision: Warehouse Captains Exempt Under FLSA Despite Supervising Similar Departments

The Second Circuit has affirmed a grant of summary judgment in a case raising the executive exemption, a relatively rare employer victory in an FLSA case from this court in recent years.

The issue in Ramos v. Baldor Speciality Foods was whether a class of “warehouse captains” who supervised nearly identical subdivisions of workers were properly classified as executives.  The plaintiffs were in charge of supervising teams of three to six “pickers.”  Pickers were responsible for retrieving food products from warehouse shelves and loading them onto trucks to be delivered to customers.  The teams of pickers performed the same general tasks, during the same shift, in the same warehouse.

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