In Falcon Et Al

In Falcon et al.v.Starbucks Corporation,after Starbucks reclassified the assistant store managers (ASMs ) from exempt to nonexempt for FLSA purposes,changing their job duties but not their labor budgets and discouraging overtime,the court found:

A) reclassifying an employee after the employee has begun work violates the FLSA.
B) maintaining a policy of discouraging overtime is unlawful and could, along with other factors, lead to a consistent pattern of FLSA violations.
C) maintaining a policy of discouraging overtime, while not unlawful, could, along with other factors, lead to a consistent pattern of FLSA violations.
D) reclassifying the ASMs from exempt to nonexempt was an improper reclassification and the ASMs should indeed be exempt and not qualified for overtime compensation