A federal judge on May 10 doubled to $6 million a jury award to 286 current and former Steak ’n Shake managers who had won a wage-and-hour lawsuit earlier this year. U.S. District Judge John A. Ross in St. Louis ...

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The federal rule specifying which American employees must receive overtime pay for working more than forty hours a week hasn’t changed since 2004, but it might soon — and that change could affect wage-and-hour litigation, according to Missouri employment-law attorneys.

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Perez v. Contingent Care, LLC (MLW No. 69015/Case No. 15-1074 – 11 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Shepherd, J.)

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