Comments on: J&J Sales Rep Denied Overtime Pay By Court

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:31:00 +0000

After more than 25 years as a pharma representative I just laugh at the court.
1) You work more than a 40 hour week when you take into account calls on “targeted” doctors.
2) You do not get orders except in the old days when you sold new products to independent drug stores. Not many of those around.
3)It seems like J&J wants it both ways a) they give the representative some discresion in what they can say.. doesn’t that leave the company open for off label promotion, b) but they have a detail piece that they use and PI.
4) Gave money for meetings (at night) with Doctors or Grand Rounds.. The rep does not do the talking but rather some “expert” sells the doctors.
5)At this point I would hate to be a new rep. as they do not have relationships with the doctors (sometimes they do not even know what they look like) and all they do is drop samples and get a signature. Move on to the next call on an office.

By: JimK

JimK — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:35:04 +0000

The title of this piece is misleading; Smith was not denied FLSA coverage because she is a sales rep but was denied because she fell under the category of administrative employee. The court left the sales rep issue open.

By: JimK

JimK — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:24:46 +0000

I know absolutely nothing about pharmaceutical sales but I doubt very much that any sucessful sales rep is working less than 40 hours per week.

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By: pharmavet

pharmavet — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:30:57 +0000

Any rep whos even working a 40 hour week is stretching it. I don’t include time waiting for their office order at Quizno’s.