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The Seventh Circuit has weighed in on the employers’ side of the pharmaceutical sales representative exemption issue, finding that pharmaceutical sales representatives at Abbott Laboratories, Inc. and Eli Lilly & Company were properly classified as exempt under the administrative exemption to the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). In Schaefer-LaRose v. Eli Lilly & Co., the Seventh Circuit issued a consolidated opinion in two cases in which the district courts had reached opposite results, with one court ruling in favor of the plaintiffs and the other ruling against. To read more about the Seventh Circuit's decision and its implications for employers, please continue reading at Littler's Healthcare Employment Counsel.