According to an attorney for a national nutrition store chain, the Pennsylvania General Assembly intended to adopt the federal standards for calculating overtime for all workers in the Keystone State, including salaried employees who work a fluctuating work week.

But during the oral argument session Wednesday before the state Supreme Court in Chevalier v. General Nutrition Centers, the justices were more concerned with what the state Department of Labor and Industry said about the issue. And the problem is, it never addressed it.