Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be shown a prompt from a judicial decision and multiple holding statements derived from citations following text in a legal decision. Holdings represent the governing legal rule when the law is applied to a particular set of facts. There are five answer choices for each citing text. The correct answer is the holding statement that corresponds to the citing text. The four incorrect answers are other holding statements. You should find the correct option. There is a <HOLDING> token in the position of the citing text prompt where the holding statement was extracted.
Q: than one and one-half times the regular rate at which he is employed." FedEx argues it is entitled to summary judgment on the overtime claims of 24 of the 25 Plaintiffs asserting such claims. First, FedEx argues that the ten Plaintiffs with overtime claims who stopped working for FedEx before January 1, 2007 are exempt from the MMWL. Before January 1, 2007, the MMWL excluded from its definition of "employee" any "individuals employed by an employer" subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"). See, e.g., Mo. Ann. Stat. 290.500, Historical and Statutory Notes, 2006 Amendment (West 2012) (providing that "individuals employed by an employer covered by 29 U.S.C. 203" were not subject to the state statute); Doyel v. McDonald's Corp., 2009 WL 350627, at *2 (E.D.Mo. Feb. 10, 2009) (<HOLDING>). FedEx contends it is an "employer" within the
Holding statements: (A) holding that employees may not contract away their flsa rights (B) holding that claims arising from a june 2007 loan were governed by the preamendment statute (C) holding that the statute plainly exempted all employees who were covered by the flsa before january 1 2007 (D) holding under flsa (E) holding that maintenance workers in a building that did produce goods for interstate commerce were covered under the flsa
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(C)