(TIPTON) – Investigation led by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) determined , the City of Tipton, Indiana, will pay $91,924 in back wages to 15 firefighters for violations of the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
The WHD investigation found the City of Tipton failed to pay overtime to firefighters who worked more than 106 hours in their two-week pay period.
The FLSA provides an exemption that allows employers to pay fire protection or law enforcement employees overtime on a "work period" basis, instead of a standard 7-day workweek, with a work period ranging from seven to 28 consecutive days. Fire protection personnel are due overtime after 106 hours worked during a 14-day work period. In this case, the City of Tipton failed to pay overtime when firefighters worked more than 106 hours.
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Despite belt-tightening, Schenectady police haul in overtime
The city of Schenectady tried to curb overtime spending during the coronavirus pandemic last year but a number of police officers were able to more than double their salary through overtime pay. (John Carl D'Annibale / Times Union)
SCHENECTADY — City police officers dominated the list of highest paid city employees last year by using overtime pay to, in some cases, to more than double their annual salaries.
The city's reliance on overtime to staff public safety shifts faced pressure earlier this year when Mayor Gary McCarthy urged city leaders find ways to cut overtime to stem fiscal problems caused by the coronavirus shutdown and the fear it would cause a drop in sales tax payments as well as revenue from Rivers Casino & Resort.
N.Y. Board Delays Decision On State Farmworkers Overtime Pay | WSHU
The three-person Farm Laborers Wage Board has delayed a decision on whether New York should make it easier for farmworkers to get overtime pay until at least November.
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The board voted ahead of the New Year to postpone deciding if the threshold for farmworker overtime pay should be reduced to 40 hours a week from 60 hours. Brenda McDuffie, chairperson of the board, said more time is needed due to the economic uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Berger Montague: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Inc.
PHILADELPHIA , Jan. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Nichols Kaster , PLLP and Berger Montague PC announce that Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Inc., GuideWell Mutual Holding Corporation, and Health Options Inc. (collectively, Defendants) have paid $25,000.00 to a former Concurrent Review Nurse for unpaid overtime wages.
The nurse filed a lawsuit on September 4, 2020 , in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Riviere v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Inc., et al. , No. 1:20-cv-23709-CMA (S.D. Fla.), alleging that Defendants violated the federal Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") by misclassifying her and other utilization review nurses as exempt and not paying additional compensation for their overtime hours worked.
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DOL Unit Protecting Pay For Millions Cut Back Significantly In Trump Years, Says GAO
A Department of Labor unit millions of workers rely on to help ensure they are paid properly for the hours that they work was cut back significantly by the Trump Administration, asserts a new Government Accountability Office study.
The number of Wage and Hour Division investigators decreased by 25 percent from 2010 to 2019, the vast majority since President Donald Trump has been in office, according to the report.
"In some parts of the country, filing a complaint with WHD is the only option to recoup lost wages other than filing a private lawsuit," says the study.
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County looks for way to make up for dispatcher shortage | News | norfolkdailynews.com
Just ask Madison County Sheriff Todd Volk, who has been running ads, encouraging his own workers, employing some Norfolk dispatchers part time and continuing to try to hire more part-time and full-time dispatchers.
Earlier this week, he went to the Madison County Board of Commissioners to get approval to pay overtime wages for dispatch personnel to make up for the shortage.
Volk told the county board on Tuesday that his department is two positions down now and has been one position down for about a year.
DOL: Travel Time Compensation Not Required for Split Workers | - CBIA
The U.S. Department of Labor has issued new guidance that employers are not required to pay travel time to employees who choose to work remotely for part of the day.
The department's Wage and Hour Division issued an opinion Dec. 31 on whether an employee who works part of the day from home and part of the day in the office has to be compensated for travel time.
An employer asked whether an employee who chooses to split time between telework and the office while completing personal tasks in between must be compensated for certain travel time.
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