Pharmaceutical Workers Sue for Back Pay
Pharmaceutical Workers Sue for Back Pay
This Associated Press article from December 28, 2006 tells the story of pharmaceutical representative Susan Schaefer LaRose, one of the hundreds of representatives who sued major drug manufacturers for illegally denying them overtime, with help from Joseph, Herzfeld, Hester & Kirschenbaum partner Charles Joseph. Schaefer LaRose, of upstate New York, told the AP that her employer Eli Lilly, outright denied representatives the ability to write reports during working hours, forcing them to do it at night and on weekends. She also told the wire service that while she started out in a genuine sales job, for which a sales exemption from overtime would be appropriate, her job had shrunk to repeating a script.