Court Opinion

ID: 9638123
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 15:34:03.910623+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:10:03.961513
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On Petition for Rehearing.
BRATTON, Circuit Judge.
The companies now contend that under Walling v. A. H. Belo Corporation, 62 S.Ct. 1223, 86 L.Ed.-, the contracts of employment involved in this case fulfilled all of the requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act, and that the employees are not entitled to recover for overtime compensation. In the Belo case the amounts paid the employees exceeded the minimum provided in the act, and it was expressly agreed by the employer and the employees that such sums should constitute both basic pay and overtime compensation. In other words, it was mutually agreed in effect that the amounts paid should be divided into two parts — basic pay and overtime pay. And the court held that the agreement cut off the right to recover any additional sum under the act.
Here certain representatives and employees of the companies agreed among themselves prior to the employment of any watchmen that the $5 per day should cover both straight time and overtime; that part of it should be allocated to straight time and part to overtime. But the companies and the watchmen did not enter into any such agreement. The matter was never mentioned between them, directly or indirectly. There was no mutual understanding that any part of the amount paid should be allocated to or treated as overtime compensation.
The petition for rehearing is denied.