Opinion ID: 158241
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Week-by-Week, Plaintiff-by-Plaintiff Determination

Text: 33 The district court ruled that each work week must be analyzed separately and the exemption must be applied individually on a Plaintiff by Plaintiff basis. Aplt. App. at 584. The language of 213(b)(29) supports a plaintiff-by-plaintiff approach because it refers to any employee (instead of the plural employees) and because it makes the exemption contingent on what kind of establishment the employee works for and whether he receives overtime pay, rather than on the employer's overarching policy. Many of the regulations for implementing the FLSA also center on the employees covered by the Act, instead of employers subject to it. See, e.g., 29 C.F.R. 778.103 (1998) (referring to any workweek in which an employee is covered by the Act and is not exempt from its overtime pay requirements). 34 A workweek-by-workweek approach is also bolstered by the plain language of the statute and regulations. Section 213(b)(29) refers to any workweek, rather than some alternate unit of time, see 29 U.S.C. 213(b)(29)(B), and as KRMI notes, regulations governing the application of 207 make the workweek the proper unit for calculating overtime compensation. See 29 C.F.R. 778.103. The applicability of the 213(b)(29) exemption must be determined on a plaintiff-by-plaintiff and workweek-by-workweek basis. 35 For the foregoing reasons, the district court's interlocutory orders are AFFIRMED.