Director Of County Laboratory Was Exempt “Executive” Or “Professional”
The director of a county laboratory, which was part of the county department of health and environment, was a "bona fide executive" or "professional person," as the basis for an exemption from the Massachusetts overtime pay statute.
The director of the county
laboratory was a high-level position with a comfortable grade of salary. The
position primarily involved technical functions requiring advanced knowledge in
a field of science or learning customarily acquired by a prolonged course of
specialized intellectual instruction, as well as managerial tasks, such as
purchasing and maintaining laboratory equipment, troubleshooting, directing the
work of seven employees, and improving the over-all structure and discipline of
the laboratory, which was a policymaking task involving a significant level of
discretion.
Ahadul Quazi v.
Barnstable County