REICH v. NEWSPAPERS OF NEW ENGLAND, INC.

Civ. No. 81-298-SD.

834 F.Supp. 530 (1993)

Robert REICH, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor v. NEWSPAPERS OF NEW ENGLAND, INC., d/b/a The Concord Monitor; George Wilson.

United States District Court, D. New Hampshire.

November 3, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Casler, USDL, Boston, MA, for plaintiff.

Edward E. Shumaker III, Concord, NH, David S. Barr [amicus, Newspaper Guild], Washington, DC, for defendants.


OPINION AND ORDER

DEVINE, Senior District Judge.

In wage-and-hour parlance, qualified employees may be exempted from the overtime pay requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. § 201, et seq. Whether certain newspaper reporters, editors, and photographers are so exempt is the issue herein addressed.

Because inquiry into exempt status under FLSA "remains intensely factbound and case specific,"

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