context: . Where the two acts diverge, however, courts do not defer to federal law to interpret state law.
citation_a.signal: cf.
citation_a.parenthetical: noting that the Pennsylvania Wage Payment and Collection Law and the FLSA have parallel remedies but "material differences" may exist between claims under each law
citation_a.sentence: See, e.g., Bayada Nurses, Inc., 8 A.3d at 882-83 (holding that federal regulations pertaining to the domestic service exemption to the FLSA did not apply to the analogous but narrower PMWA exemption and that Pennsylvania may interpret its law in a manner more beneficial to employees than federal law); see also Foster v. Kraft Foods Glob., Inc., 285 F.R.D. 343, 345 (W.D. Pa. 2012) (declining to apply the FLSA’s method for calculating overtime payments to the PMWA analysis where the federal method conflicted with the language of the PMWA); Truman v. DeWolff, Boberg & Assocs., Inc., No. 07-01702, 2009 WL 2015126, at *2 (W.D. Pa. July 7, 2009) ("In light of the FLSA's explicit recognition that states may offer greater protections to its employees than the FLSA, we are reluctant to find an unstated foreign-work exemption in the PMWA based solely on the fact that the FLSA contains such an exemption.”); cf. Smiley v. E.I. Dupont De Nemours & Co., 839 F.3d 325, 328-29 n.4 (3d Cir. 2016) (noting that the Pennsylvania Wage Payment and Collection Law and the FLSA have parallel remedies but “material differences” may exist between claims under each law).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.identifier: 8 A.3d 882, 882-83
citation_b.parenthetical: holding that federal regulations pertaining to the domestic service exemption to the FLSA did not apply to the analogous but narrower PMWA exemption and that Pennsylvania may interpret its law in a manner more beneficial to employees than federal law
citation_b.sentence: See, e.g., Bayada Nurses, Inc., 8 A.3d at 882-83 (holding that federal regulations pertaining to the domestic service exemption to the FLSA did not apply to the analogous but narrower PMWA exemption and that Pennsylvania may interpret its law in a manner more beneficial to employees than federal law); see also Foster v. Kraft Foods Glob., Inc., 285 F.R.D. 343, 345 (W.D. Pa. 2012) (declining to apply the FLSA’s method for calculating overtime payments to the PMWA analysis where the federal method conflicted with the language of the PMWA); Truman v. DeWolff, Boberg & Assocs., Inc., No. 07-01702, 2009 WL 2015126, at *2 (W.D. Pa. July 7, 2009) ("In light of the FLSA's explicit recognition that states may offer greater protections to its employees than the FLSA, we are reluctant to find an unstated foreign-work exemption in the PMWA based solely on the fact that the FLSA contains such an exemption.”); cf. Smiley v. E.I. Dupont De Nemours & Co., 839 F.3d 325, 328-29 n.4 (3d Cir. 2016) (noting that the Pennsylvania Wage Payment and Collection Law and the FLSA have parallel remedies but “material differences” may exist between claims under each law).