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Something for the weekend: It is often the little things that can make a big difference. This is a lesson that US food organisation Oakhurst Dairy learnt this week when a missing comma in Maine's overtime law exemption document entitled its delivery drivers to overtime pay.
In the case of O'Connor et al. v Oakhurst Dairy et al., which was heard by the United States Court of Appeals For the First Circuit, Oakhurst Dairy delivery drivers claimed that Exemption F in Maine's overtime law is ambiguous due to the lack of an Oxford comma in the list of activities that are not under the protection of the overtime law.
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