A tentative deal between Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and the leadership of the police union would guarantee $245 million in cash overtime pay for officers, locking in substantial personnel costs just as law enforcement spending is under major scrutiny.
To get the union to postpone two pay raises, Garcetti has offered officers at the Los Angeles Police Department a minimum of $70 million in overtime pay in each of the next three budget years. On top of that, officers would be permitted in the final year of the contract to cash out as much as $35 million in overtime pay for hours they've already worked, but for which they have not been compensated.
Not to change the topic here:
Deadline Detroit | Overtime pushes pay above $190,000 for 6 Warren Fire Department members
Mayor Jim Fouts said the high pay came from overtime pay rates incurred due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Fouts said the city has agreed to minimum-staffing requirements in the fire department union contract. The clause requires the city to maintain a certain level of staffing at all times.
He said that Covid-19 also made it difficult to replace retired firefighters because the organizations involved in searching for new firefighters were hit by the pandemic.
Operators of Shanty Creek Resort Ordered to Pay More than $87K in Overtime Back Wages - 9 &
The operators of Shanty Creek Resort in Bellaire have been ordered to pay more than $87,000 in overtime back wages.
A U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigation discovered that Trinidad Resort & Club LLC paid its workers only for the hours they were scheduled and not for the total number of hours actually worked. They owed $87,529 in overtime back wages for 256 workers at the resort.
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In addition, the resort operator was found to have violated child labor requirements when it scheduled no fewer than 11 workers, ages 14- and 15-years-old, to work after 7 p.m.; more than three hours on a school day; and more than 18 hours in a workweek while school was in session. The operator paid a civil money penalty of $7,513 for these violations.
MTA overtime kings are looking more and more like mobsters
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck . . . The alleged overtime pay conspiracy by a group of MTA workers looks even more like organized crime than we'd thought .
Pizzonia accumulated $189,297 of overtime pay as an LIRR track worker in 2019 alone. Meanwhile, Balestra Jr. collected $241,000 of OT in 2018, the equivalent of eight hours of extra pay per weekday.
The overtime con spanned multiple years, prosecutors charge, as the fraudsters helped each other collect wages while bowling, vacationing and chilling at home over 40 miles away.
Not to change the topic here:
When do salaried employees deserve overtime? | Illinois | gmtoday.com
Potentially hundreds of Jewel-Osco employees will be given a chance to join a lawsuit alleging the grocery chain improperly denied overtime pay to assistant store directors.
The suit, filed in May in Chicago federal court, accuses Jewel-Osco, the largest grocery chain in the Chicago area, of mis-classifying assistant store directors as salaried employees exempt from receiving overtime pay under federal labor law. It is one of numerous lawsuits claiming grocers and retailers cut their labor costs by giving employees managerial titles even as they do mostly manual work.
Staffing shortage at Wisconsin prisons has cost taxpayers $60M in overtime pay | State and
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.
This story focused on the nuance behind the destruction that happened in Downtown Madison this summer. Most protesters tried for peace.
Northern Michigan resort ordered to pay overtime and $7,500 for labor violations
BELLAIRE, Mich. (WJRT) - Shanty Creek Resort in northern Michigan has been ordered to pay over $87,500 in back overtime wages and a $7,500 fine for teenage labor violations.
The U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division says the resort's operator paid employees only for the time they were scheduled rather than the total number of hours they actually worked. Regulators ordered Shanty Creek to pay 256 workers a total of $87,529 in overtime.
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"Employers must pay workers every penny they have legally earned," said Wage and Hour Division District Director Mary O'Rourke, in Grand Rapids. "If employees work before or after their scheduled shifts, the employer benefits from that work – so they must pay for it."
This Week at the Ninth: Per Diems and Wages | Morrison & Foerster LLP - Left Coast Appeals -
This week, we take a look at the Court’s decision attempting to navigate the fine line between employer payments that reimburse employees for expenses—and thus need not be considered in calculating the employees’ overtime wage rate—and payments that in fact compensate employees for hours worked.
Clarke v. AMN Services, LLC
The Court holds that “per diem” reimbursement payments were not actually reimbursements, but rather functioned as wages subject to state and federal overtime requirements.
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