A U.S. federal appeals court has ruled that Kanaway Seafoods, doing business as Alaska General Seafoods (AGS), does not have to pay overtime to employees who were under lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic.
In the ruling filed 10 January in the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, California, U.S.A., the court said that the district court that ruled on this case first was correct in stating that Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.A.-based AGS did not have to pay overtime in the case Flaherty v. Kanaway Seafoods, Inc.
The case centered around AGS’s requirement that workers at its Naknek and Ketchikan, Alaska-based processing facilities stay on the company's premises in April 2020 due to Covid-19 restrictions.
“First, the court correctly concluded that Plaintiffs were not entitled to ...
