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D.C. police union sues city government after overtime pay dispute - The Georgetown Voice
The D.C. police union filed a civil lawsuit against the city government on behalf of more than 1,000 officers on Oct. 5, claiming that the $14-per-day hazard pay stipend for city workers, which the officers received, was not factored into their overtime hours.
In addition to the compensation for overtime work, the police officers are also suing to receive full back pay and liquidated damages resulting from the claimed miscalculation of overtime pay.
A Biden Administration Could Do a Lot for Workers
President-elect Joe Biden held a virtual meeting on Monday with union leaders and corporate CEOs. Afterward, Biden declared that he'd told the executives "I'm a union guy" and that in his administration "unions are going to have increased power."
Biden should be responsive to labor's goal as a matter of simple politics. Labor unions just spent around $180 million in attempts to elect Democrats up and down the ballot. And with the Democratic Party increasingly focused on suburban professionals rather than its onetime working-class base, unions remain the party's primary outreach operation to people without college degrees.
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Pros and Cons of Exempt Employees - businessnewsdaily.com
While your employees might not like being told they need to work more than 40 hours in a given week, that doesn't mean it's illegal to demand it of them. In fact, there are no federal laws that prevent you from having most of your salaried employees work more than 40 hours per week. These employees are called exempt employees. As an employer, you need to understand exactly what an exempt employee is, how they differ from nonexempt staff and what you can legally ask of these workers.
MS chicken plants violated minimum wage and child labor laws, feds say
Mississippi chicken processing plants bilked their employees of tens of thousands of dollars by paying them below minimum wage and incorrectly calculating their overtime pay, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Friday.
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The Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division investigated three poultry companies which operate facilities in Mississippi:
The poultry processing plants have paid $45,719 in back wages to 129 employees to resolve minimum wage and overtime violations, according to a news release.
Highfill OKs surplus police vehicle sales
HIGHFILL -- The City Council on Nov. 10 authorized the sale of surplus Police Department vehicles and received proposed annexation ordinances for review.
The council approved a request from police chief Blake Webb to sell two police vehicles and transfer one to the Fire Department.
According to Webb's request, the Fire Department agreed to purchase the department's white Dodge Durango and will return the Police Department's black Durango. The Police Department will then seek to sell by sealed bid the black Durango and a 2007 For Crown Victoria.
Case: Wage & Hour/Overtime (W.D. Mo.)
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