High-earning employee is not compensated on salary basis when paycheck is based on daily rate calculated by number of days worked, Supreme Court held. Helix Energy Solutions Grp v. Hewitt. Employee cannot satisfy highly compensated employee exemption, must get overtime pay.
Recently, in Helix Energy Solutions Group v. Hewitt, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a daily-rate worker who earned over $200,000 annually was not exempt from the Fair Labor Standards.
In its most recent employment decision, the Supreme Court rejected an employer’s efforts to avoid paying overtime to a highly-compensated oil rig employee, finding that the employee’s.