Employee Of Small Family Carpentry Business Was Not Individually Covered Under FLSA
In
this wage and hour case, the United States District Court held that a
cabinet installer and assembler for a small, family-owned carpentry business in
Florida who was seeking overtime compensation was not "engaged in commerce" such
that he was individually covered under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). As
part of his duties he regularly picked up or purchased materials such as hinges,
nails, screws and knobs at a number of retail stores, and many of those
materials had traveled in interstate commerce. However, his duties involved only
intrastate activity, and the goods he retrieved ceased moving in interstate
commerce when they arrived at retail locations for sale in the local market.
Guzman v. Irmadan, Inc.