Mims V Starbucks Case

LAW 150 Mims v. Starbucks Corp. Fact * Kevin Keevican, Kathleen Mims, and other(a) former managers filed a showcase against Starbucks seeking unpaid extra conviction and other amounts. * In Starbucks Corp. Stores the managers responsibilities include supervising and cause six to thirty employees including supervisors and assistant managers, overseeing customer service and processes employee records, payrolls, and inventory counts. * He or she excessively develops strategies to ontogeny r regular(a) outues, control costs, and comply with corporate policies. As a manager Kevin worked seventy hours a week for $650 to $800, a 10 to 20 percent bonus, and fringe benefits that were non available to baristas, such as paid vomit leave. * An employees primary occupation is usually what the employee does that is of principal value to the employer, not the collateral tasks that she may also perform, even if they consume more(prenominal) than half their sequence. * The Plaintiffs argu ed that they spent less than 50 percent of their time on managing and therefore they should be entitled to unpaid overtime and other amounts. IssueAre the managers non-exempt from the FLSAs overtime provisions?Decision NO Rationale The court began by stating the even when an employee spends less than 50% of his time on management, as the plaintiffs claim they did, management might hushed be the employees primary concern if original factors support that conclusion. The factors were 1) the intercourse importance of managerial duties compared to other duties 2) the frequency with which the employee set abouts discretionary decisions 3) the employees relative freedom from supervision and 4) the relationship between the employees net income and the wages paid to employees who perform relevant non-exempt work.The record showed that the managerial duties were more critical to success than other duties. The reasoning behind this was that if the managers of stores that made more than $1 million annually in sales were able to spend the majority of their time doing chores that other employees which they hired also perform, its still obvious that those activities of the manager were not as importance compared to the hearty management responsibilities performed during the lesser part of their time.In other words even though the managers spent more time doing less significant work, it still is not as significant as the management activities that they perform even though they do the management activities with 20 to 30 percent of their time. It was apparent that the plaintiffs were the highest paid being that they were the managers and given up the significance of their activities they had to make many decisions such as inventory control and whom to deploy in certain positions.A part of these activities was as the highest-ranking employees in their stores to choose who to hire when to discipline employees etc. This applies to the second factor. They argued that becau se the govern managers had the bureau to hire more senior employees and set rates of pay, that they did not have the full power to make discretionary decisions however this does not change that management was their primary duty because the discretion may be limited to the company and its desires for uniformity.The third factor in determining if management was the employees primary duty was the employees relative freedom from supervision. The plaintiffs had claimed that this factor was not conclusive since the district managers were always coming into their stores. They had claimed that since the district managers came on a frequent basis they did not have the freedom from supervision. The court found that the managers still had enough discretionary power and freedom from supervision to qualify for the executive exemption.In other words even though the district managers spent substantial amounts of time in the Plaintiffs stores they still had the responsibility of maintaining the s tore and its operations and had enough freedom from supervision according to the courts. The fourth factor was the relationship between the employees salary and the wages paid to employees who perform relevant non exempt work. Basically here the court tell that there was no evidence that their compensation was close to that of some assistant managers which was the Plaintiffs argument on the matter.And it was without a uncertainty that they had nearly twice the total annual compensation received by their highest-paid supervisors. And they also received bonuses that were not available to everyone. Thus after looking at all the factors the court decided in party favor of Starbucks and dismissed the claims, who were exempt from the FLSAs overtime provisions as executive employees. The court also said that the plaintiffs primary duty was management.