Fastenal has announced an agreement to settle a wage-hour lawsuit filed against it toward the end of 2007. Wage-hour law can be a tricky area for employers, as we reported in our premium content newsletter back in October when the lawsuit was filed. In light of Fastenal’s settlement, it’s probably worth revisiting that report.
 
One lawyer from the national employment law firm Fisher &Phillips told me at that time that it’s not unusual to see legal problems arise from confusion over the exemption status of certain workers, as Fastenal has recently seen. So-called “white-collar” exemptions depend in part on what kind of work the employee is …