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Certain Per Diem Payments Increase The FLSA Regular Rate | Seyfarth Shaw LLP - JDSupra
Seyfarth Synopsis: The Ninth Circuit has held that a weekly per diem benefit paid by a healthcare staffing agency to its traveling clinicians is a wage that increases the employee’s regular rate used to calculate overtime pay. Clarke v. AMN Services, LLC.
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Plaintiffs worked as traveling clinicians for a healthcare staffing company. They earned a designated hourly wage, as well as a weekly per diem benefit. They sued the company under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) for unpaid overtime wages, on the theory that the company failed to consider the per diem benefit in calculating the overtime rate.
New Senate bill lays out overtime pay proposal | Washington | capitalpress.com
Staffing shortage at Wisconsin prisons has cost taxpayers $60M in overtime pay | Crime |
A staffing shortage at Wisconsin prisons is pushing corrections officers to work long hours, costing taxpayers at least $60 million in overtime pay.
Roughly 15% of corrections officers positions are unfilled at Wisconsin's prisons, according to data from the state Department of Corrections.
The problem is currently most severe at Waupun Correctional Institution where 40% of jobs are vacant. Figures from the agency show 119 out of 297 job positions were vacant at the prison as of Feb. 2.
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MTA worker caught having sex at railyard — while on overtime
A Metro-North worker resigned last month after the MTA’s watchdog caught him having sex with a woman at a railyard — while collecting overtime pay , according to a new report.
Investigators from the office of MTA Inspector General Carolyn Pokorny observed the machinist, a 25-year veteran, bring an unauthorized woman onto the grounds of the Croton-Harmon property three times last spring — including at least one time that got steamy, according to the report, set to be publicized later Monday.
This Week at the Ninth: Per Diems and Wages - Lexology
Overtime pay factored into sheriff's '21 budget, eliminating comp time | Gasconade County
HERMANN — Gasconade County administrators hope they have headed off what has become a long-standing fiscal headache in a county government agency — the accrual of compensatory time by …
The issue of overtime and comp time arose a week ago during a Commission budget work session. The discussion centered around new timesheets that were being considered for the sheriff’s agency that was based 160 hours a month, rather than the current 171 hours based on 28 days. Using 160 hours would require at least a minimal amount of overtime, the sheriff said, but there would be no comp time accrued.
Mayor’s deal with LAPD union would guarantee $245 million in police overtime – Law
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Retroactive speeches and technical excuses do not hide your inaction in the face of injustice. RepKClark Sat Feb 13 22:28:10 +0000 2021
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