In a highly anticipated decision under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the United States Supreme Court handed down a big win on Tuesday for the pharmaceutical industry when the Court found pharmaceutical sales representatives are covered by the outside sales exemption in Christopher v. Smith Kline Beecham Corp. We covered in previous posts the
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Supreme Court to Decide Whether Pharmaceutical Sales Reps Fall within FLSA Outside Sales Exemption
By Porter Wright on
Employers are closer to a nation-wide rule on the appropriate classification of pharmaceutical sales representatives (PSRs). On Monday, the Supreme Court granted cert to resolve a split between the Ninth and Second Circuits on whether PSRs are covered by the outside sales exemption of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
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