Eighteen plaintiffs are seeking collective against Baylor Scott & White Health for violating overtime compensation laws and making improper deductions from salaried employees. The federal suit was filed in the Dallas Division of the Northern Division of Texas and seeks back pay, additional funds for liquidated damages, as well as attorneys fees.
In order to classify an employee as salaried, employers must meet the “salary basis test,” which means that wrongful deductions from an employees salary can take them out of the salaried exemption and turn them into hourly employees, who are entitled to overtime if they work more than 40 hours a week.
And here's another article:
Boston police received $5.8 million in overtime pay in response to protests | Boston.com
However, the massive demonstrations in Boston — punctuated by calls to " defund the police " — have had another ironic consequence: millions of dollars in additional salary for the police.
According to records obtained by the State House New Service , the city of Boston paid nearly $5.8 million in overtime pay to police officers who worked shifts in response to the protests in May, June, and July.
The majority of the money, $5.3 million, was paid for a total of 82,054 hours in June when the protests were at their peak. Overall, Boston police worked 88,893.25 overtime hours earning exactly $5,795,518, which averages out to just over $65 an hour.
OOIDA presses regulators on detention time pay, truck parking - FreightWaves
Owner-operators told federal regulators that repealing an 80-year-old law preventing them from collecting overtime pay could help alleviate the negative effects of increasing detention times at destination facilities.
"Unfortunately, drivers' times aren't valued, especially by shippers and receivers," said Lewie Pugh, vice president of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA), speaking at the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's (FMCSA) Truck Safety Summit this week.
Letter: Burstein earns entire amount of overtime pay | Letters | buffalonews.com
Having learned from The Buffalo News recently that Dr. Gale Burstein received the highest amount of overtime pay of all county officials, I am reassured every day that she has earned every dollar of it, if not even more. We in Erie County are very fortunate to have her as Erie County Health Commissioner and deserves praise for all of her efforts on our behalf. We should appreciate all she has done and will do to so adroitly coordinate our county's public health response to the pandemic.
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I would like to add my perspective on the riots/civil disobedience and the hyped injury to an anarchist.
Quite a lot has been going on:
California’s Labor Commission Sues Uber, Lyft Alleging Wage Theft – NBC Bay Area
The California Labor Commissioner's Office announced Thursday that it has filed separate lawsuits against ride hailing services Uber and Lyft, accusing the companies of wage theft by misclassifying employees as independent contractors.
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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra sued Uber and Lyft in San Francisco Superior Court in May, also accusing them of illegally classifying their drivers as independent contractors rather than employees.
Five city police officers accrue large sums of overtime | Local News | ncnewsonline.com
Maria Basileo is a news reporter. She covers Laurel and Shenango school boards and municipal government.
Scotts to settle fluctuating workweek claims for $3.1M | HR Dive
The FWW method allows employers to pay non-exempt employees with fluctuating hours a fixed salary for each weeks' work. When workers put in less than 40 hours, they're paid the fixed salary. When they put in more than 40 hours, necessitating overtime, employers determine their regular rate by "dividing the number of hours worked in the workweek into the amount of the salary."
Following a June ruling from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on fluctuating workweeks and worker pay, attorneys for law firm Seyfarth Shaw noted in a blog post that employers should explain to FWW-paid workers in writing that their fixed salary is "intended to compensate them for all hours worked in any week and that their overtime premium rate will be at half the effective hourly rate of their salary that week based on their actual hours worked."
KFD addresses pension spiking | The Garden Island
LIHU‘E — In February, the Mayor’s Office ordered the Kaua‘i Fire Department to suspend most overtime and nonessential expenditures to curb pension spiking, which has penalized the county consistently over the last few years.
Anywhere between six to eight KFD employees are expected to retire at the end of this year, resulting in about $1.1 million to $1.6 million in pension payments, depending on how many actually retire.
KFD Assistant Chief Solomon Kanoho explained that this number is in part due to higher-ranking personnel retiring, regular overtime and rank-for-rank collective bargaining with the Hawai‘i Firefighters Association.
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