Helix Energy Solutions Group v. Hewitt (598 U.S. 39)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided February 22, 2023 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 598 U.S. 39 · 143 S. Ct. 677
- Decided
- February 22, 2023
- Term
- October Term 2022
- Vote
- 6–3
- Majority author
- Justice Kagan
- Issue area
- Unions
- Disposition
- Affirmed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party lost
- Ideological direction
- Liberal
Opinion excerpt
(Slip Opinion) OCTOBER TERM, 2022 1 Syllabus NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is issued. The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader. See United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co., 200 U. S. 321 , 337. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES Syllabus HELIX ENERGY SOLUTIONS GROUP, INC., ET AL. v. HEWITT CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT No. 21–984. Argued October 12, 2022—Decided February 22, 2023 Respondent Michael Hewitt filed an action against his employer, peti- tioner Helix Energy Solutions Group, seeking overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which guarantees overtime pay to covered employees when they work more than 40 hours a week. From 2014 to 2017, Hewitt worked for Helix on an offshore oil rig, typically working 84 hours a week while on the vessel. Helix paid Hewitt on a daily-rate basis, with no overtime compensation. So Hewitt’s paycheck, issued every two weeks, amounted to his daily rate times the number of days he had worked in the pay period. Under that com- pensation scheme, Hewitt earned over $200,000 annually. Helix as- serts that Hewitt was exempt from the FLSA because he qualified as “a bona fide…
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