Opinion ID: 618853
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Heading: Failure of Kellar's Indiana's Wage Payment Claim

Text: Kellar concedes that her state law claim under Indiana's Wage Payment Statute (IWPS) is derivative of her FLSA claim. See Gehbauer v. Emas, Inc., 679 N.E.2d 1374, 1376-77 (Ind.Ct.App.1997). The only difference between the two claims in this case is that Kellar's FLSA claim seeks damages for unpaid hours worked over 40 hours in each workweek, while her IWPS claim seeks damages for unpaid, pre-shift hours for those workweeks during which she worked less than 40 hours and for which the FLSA would not provide compensation. Because we have concluded that Summit is entitled to summary judgment on Kellar's FLSA claim, we conclude that Kellar's IWPS claim fails too.