Acting in good faith at question in FLSA case

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Abstract: A five-restaurant chain failed to pay overtime to employees whose weekly hours totaled more than 40 when working at more than one location. When the case went to court, the owners claimed they weren’t aware that they owed overtime pay. And so arose the case of Chao v. Barbeque Ventures LLC, in which the Eighth Circuit had to decide whether those owners had acted in good faith to meet the requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Chao v. Barbeque Ventures, LLC, 547 F.3d 938 (8th Cir. 2008) Goldberg v. Kickapoo Prairie Broadcasting Co., 288 F.2d 778 (8th Cir. 1961)