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6 Jul 2010, 12:15 pm
Second Circuit issues ruling in In re Novartis Wage and Hour Litigation: Are pharmaceutical sales reps entitled to overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act if they work more than 40 hours per week? [read post]
26 Jul 2010, 11:36 am by Kevin M. Doherty, Esq.
In another decision addressing the rampant misuse of the outside sales and administrative exemptions by companies, the Court of Appeals reversed a prior favorable decision for Novartis in In re Novartis Wage and Hour Litigation. [read post]
27 Jan 2012, 6:00 am by Keith Reinfeld
On January 24, 2012, the Southern District of New York preliminarily approved a settlement in In Re: Novartis Wage and Hour Litigation, which will pay pharmaceutical sales representatives (“Sales Reps”) $99 million. [read post]
22 Jul 2010, 7:19 am
A recent case out of the 2nd Circuit, In re Novartis Wage and Hour Litigation, 2nd Cir., No. 09-0437 (July 2010), considered whether outside pharmaceutical representatives fell within that exemption. [read post]
12 Jul 2010, 4:29 pm by Steven G. Pearl
In In re Novartis Wage and Hour Litigation, --- F.3d ----, 2010 WL 2667337 (2nd Cir., July 6, 2010) the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed a trial court order granting summary judgment on grounds that the putative class members, pharmaceutical sales representatives, are exempt from the requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") as outside salespeople and/or administrative employees.The Second Circuit held that the… [read post]
12 Jul 2010, 8:29 am
In In re Novartis Wage and Hour Litigation, the Second Circuit determined that this was a crucial distinction which prevented Novartis from avoiding FLSA overtime payments under the "outside sales" exemption. [read post]
7 Jul 2010, 11:10 am by Andrew Frisch
In re Novartis Wage and Hour Litigation This case was before the Second Circuit on Plaintiffs’ appeal of the lower Court’s Order granting Defendant summary judgment, which held that Plaintiffs, Pharmaceutical Representatives, were exempt from the overtime provisions of the FLSA under both the outside sales exemption and the administrative sales exemption. [read post]
8 Jul 2010, 12:18 pm by admin
  The case is In re Novartis Wage and Hour Litigation, and a copy of the court’s opinion is available here. [read post]
13 Jul 2010, 7:42 am by Ashwin Trehan
    In In re Novartis Wage & Hour Litigation , the Second Circuit held that PRs -- who promote their employer's products but are legally prohibited from selling them to physicians -- do not satisfy the outside sales exemption because they "do[] not in any sense make the sale" of the products. [read post]
6 Jul 2010, 6:40 pm by Daniel Schwartz
  The decision in "In re: Novartis Wage & Hour Litigation" (download here), focuses a lot on the "outside salesperson" exemption that exists under federal law. [read post]
6 Feb 2012, 7:39 am by Leland E. Beck
Background:  The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit deferred to the DOL’s amicus-brief interpretation that pharmaceutical sales representatives (PSRs), sometimes called “detailers,” were covered by the FLSA (and due overtime) in In re Novartis Wage & Hour Litigation. [read post]
21 Apr 2009, 8:45 am
The court also held as unpersuasive several other recent cases in federal courts such as In re Novartis Wage & Hour Litig., 593 F. [read post]
30 Dec 2010, 10:00 am by Gerald L. Maatman, Jr.
Fourth, by sheer numbers, wage & hour litigation continued to far out-pace all other types of workplace class actions. [read post]
6 Oct 2010, 7:46 am by Andrew Frisch
  Plaintiff sought reconsideration in light of the United States Secretary of Labor’s amicus curiae brief filed in In re Novartis Wage and Hour Litigation. [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 5:48 am
  In re Novartis Wage & Hour Litig., 611 F.3d 141 (2d Cir. 2010).California law should follow the FLSA outside sales exemption. [read post]
17 Feb 2011, 1:59 pm by AALRR
  Plaintiffs claimed they worked between 10 and 20 hours each week outside of normal business hours, for which they received no overtime wages. [read post]
     The Second Circuit, in In re Novartis Wage & Hour Litigation, 611 F.3d 141 (2d Cir. 2010), subsequently reached a different conclusion after considering the duties of the sales representatives in that case. [read post]