Nineteen AT&T employees who worked in a San Antonio call center have sued the company for unpaid overtime, alleging they were permitted or required to work “off the clock.”
The allegations were made in three lawsuits, filed Saturday in San Antonio federal court, against AT&T Services Inc. and Southwestern Bell Telephone LP.
The plaintiffs worked in the eight-story AT&T building at 4119 Broadway. It’s not clear if any still work there. AT&T continues to operate a call center in the building, which the University of the Incarnate Word acquired last fall.
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WPI Wage Watch: Minimum Wage, Tip, and Overtime Developments (COVID-19 Catch-Up / Mid-Year Rate
UPDATE: On June 10, 2020, the July 1, 2020 Minimum Wage Changes chart was revised to include the announced hotel minimum wage rates in Los Angeles and Santa Monica, California.
For the past few months, we have been keeping a very safe distance from each other: thousands of miles. However, as more businesses reopen across the country, we realize it is time to come together (virtually) to discuss an additional challenge some employers might face in the coming weeks: an increased minimum wage obligation for non-exempt employees.
Tennessee trailer manufacturer to pay overtime violations
NEW TAZEWELL, Tenn. (AP) — A New Tazewell trailer manufacturer will pay $134,799 in back wages to 408 employees to resolve overtime violations, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Labor.
The payment comes after investigators determined Homesteader Trailers failed to include some employees' production bonuses in their pay rate when calculating their overtime rates. Investigators also found the company failed to pay workers for time they spent on short rest breaks and for time they spent working before their official start times when they were preparing material and equipment and donning protective gear.
City of DeKalb, County awarded over $100K in COVID-19 relief grants for overtime pay, PPE costs |
DeKALB – The city of DeKalb and DeKalb County municipal governments have been awarded a collective $100,000 from the United States Department of Justice for COVID-19 pandemic relief, which will go to paying overtime, hiring personnel, buying personal protective equipment and more.
The funding was announced Wednesday according to a news release, as part of the Coronavirus Emergency Supplemental Funding program through the DOJ.
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Potential uses include hiring personnel, paying overtime, purchasing protective equipment, and distributing resources to hard-hit areas, the release states.
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DOL: Employers Offering Incentive-Based Pay Can Use Fluctuating Work Week Method to Calculate OT
ICLG.com > Briefing > DOL: Employers Offering Incentive-Based Pay Can Use Fluctuating Work Week Method to Calculate OT
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The US Department of Labor (DOL) published a Final Rule on June 8 confirming that paying bonuses, commissions, and other incentive-based pay to salaried, nonexempt employees does not disqualify employers from using the fluctuating workweek (FWW) method of calculating overtime pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
Law enforcement overtime for protests costs thousands in Stark County - News - The Repository -
CANTON Local governments estimate they’ve spent several hundred dollars to more than $100,000 for law enforcement overtime related to recent protests.
Officers worked overtime every day except June 7 and had the greatest daily cost of $23,213 on May 31. Most, but not all of the overtime, can be attributed to recent protests, according to the mayor.
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“The use of overtime can be curtailed by the mayor, safety director and budget director,” Bernabei stated. “But in this case, given the importance to our city that we protect and serve both the Unity Coalition protesters and the public at large, and maintain law and order, the use of this overtime is justified and fully supported.”
Federal judge upholds back wage order against Gaylord logging company | Crime | petoskeynews.com
Panera franchisee to pay $4.6M in overtime lawsuit | Restaurant Dive
Panera settled another class action suit last year in a Washington, D.C. court for nearly $2 million . In that case, the plaintiffs also argued that the chain wrongly classified assistant managers as exempt from overtime requirements. These issues likely stem from the company's reclassification of assistant managers in 2016.
According to Bloomberg Law, those changes were made ahead of anticipated revisions of President Obama's Fair Labor Standard Act's "white collar" exemptions . Under the Fair Labor Standards Act , only certain classes of employees may be designated as overtime exempt and are expected to perform specific duties to warrant such a classification.
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