Boykin
Boykin v. Boeing Co.
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Beezer, J.
ORDER
Defendant-appellee’s request for publication, received by the court on September 18, 1997, is GRANTED.
The memorandum disposition filed August 15,1997, is redesignated as an authored opinion by Judge Beezer with minor modifications.
OPINION
Raymond Boykin and other purported representatives of a class of employees at the Boeing Company appeal the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Boeing in the employees’ action for overtime wage benefits under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 201-09 , and the Washington Minimum Wage Act (MWA), Wash. Rev.Code ch. 49.46. The employees contend that the district court erred in its conclusion that Boeing did not violate the FLSA or the MWA by failing to pay the. employees time and one-half for overtime work. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we affirm.
I
In July 1995, representatives of a putative class filed a complaint alleging that Boeing violated both the FLSA and the MWA by failing to pay a rate of time-and-a-half for overtime work. The purported class includes engineers who are compensated according to the 1992-1995 collective bargaining agreement between Boeing and the Seattle…