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  Courts have held consistently that the fact that one works at home is not dispositive of the issue of 'employee' status under the FLSA. In a seminal decision, Goldberg v. Whitaker House Cooperative, 366 U.S. 28, 6 L. Ed. 2d 100, 81 S. Ct. 933 (1961), the Supreme Court held that members of a cooperative who made knitted goods in their homes and were paid on a piece-rate basis, [The Supreme Court had held earlier that workers paid on a piece-rate basis were encompassed by the Fair Labor Standards Act. See United States v. Rosenwasser, 323 U.S. 360, ...