Sixth Circuit finds company's worm-grower employees exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act's overtime-pay provision

In Barks v Silver Bait, LLC the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals determined that a company's worm-growing workers, whose jobs included growing and raising worms for sale as fishing bait, fell within the Fair Labor Standards Act's "agriculture" exemption for paying workers overtime. No. 15-5175 (CA 6 October 2, 2015). In Barks, the Court explained that the FLSA has exempted "agriculture" from the Act's overtime-pay requirement, and, after reviewing analogous exempted activities, the Court concluded that the worm-growing workers at issue fell within the Act's "agriculture" exemption.

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