Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor v. Michael Lauritzen and Marilyn Lauritzen, Individually and Doing Business as Lauritzen Farms

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 1988-02-08

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HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge. This, as unlikely as it may at first seem, is a federal pickle case. The issue is whether the migrant workers who harvest the pickle crop of defendant Lauritzen Farms, in effect defendant Michael Laurit-zen, are employees for purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (“FLSA”), 1 or are instead independent contractors not subject to the requirements of…

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