JACKSON, MI – The number of Jackson city employees earning six-figure salaries almost tripled in 2020, with many earning extra pay through overtime.
Thirty-two city employees earned at least $100,000 in gross wages, which includes overtime or other extra pay, in 2020, according to information obtained by MLive/Jackson Citizen Patriot through a Freedom of Information Act. That's up from 11 in 2019 and 12 in 2018.
The city's top earners were mostly department leaders, with City Manager Patrick Greene leading the payroll at $174,492.05. His salary increased by about $28,500 from 2019, when he was assistant city manager.
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Vanderburgh Co. Health Dept. request overtime pay for staff working extra hours
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - As COVID-19 vaccination efforts continue in Vanderburgh County, a number of health department employees are working extra hours to accommodate the need.
Administrator Joe Gries went in front of the Vanderburgh County Council on Wednesday to ask for overtime pay approval.
Lynn Herr with the Vanderburgh County Health Department says about 25% of adults in the county have now had their first shot.
The majority of their employees are working more than their 40 hours per week, especially in the vaccine clinics. These grant dollars come from the state, but the county has to sign off on them.
Chipotle to settle 2017 overtime dispute with $15M payout | Restaurant Dive
Labor issues have also been on the rise since the beginning of the pandemic. According to Seyfarth Shaw's 17th Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report , at least 1,005 workplace lawsuits were filed in 2020 related to the pandemic with more likely this year. Those suits were filed across 47 states in 28 industries, and wage-and-hour issues are among the most filed.
"As businesses rushed to adopt safety requirements, their actions drew claims that they failed to pay minimum wage or overtime for compensable work hours," the report notes.
IG report finds State Police overtime reform flawed - The Boston Globe
Quarterly audits of the State Police's 50 highest-paid employees, an oversight measure ordered by Governor Charlie Baker in 2018, were not effective in targeting potential overtime fraud because they "placed too much emphasis on those troopers who earned the most money for the relevant quarter as opposed to troopers who worked the most overtime hours," according to the annual report, which was issued Monday .
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Many of those audited had landed on the highest-paid list because they had retired and received a large payout for unused leave, or were high-salaried employees who worked less overtime than other troopers, the report said. Last year, the State Police expanded the initiative to include weekly audits of troopers chosen at random, regardless of earnings. But the inspector general's Division of State Police Oversight found that approach was inadequate.
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Overtime Launches A Basketball League That Will Pay High School Players Six-Figure Salaries
(L-R) Aaron Ryan, Zack Weiner, Dan Porter and Brandon Williams are reshaping the basketball ... [+] landscape with the creation of Overtime Elite.
Overtime Elite (OTE) is a new basketball league for up-and-coming elite high school prospects offering a year-round development program by combining coaching, sports science and performance technologies, facilities and an academic program that not only benefits players at this point in their career development, but also as they progress into the professional ranks.
Philadelphia nonprofit home-care firm forced to pay $2.1 million in back wages for overtime
Pittsburgh home health agency charged $1.6 million for misclassification of workers | Pittsburgh
Restaurant to pay $600K to settle suit over wage theft | The Spokesman-Review
SEATTLE — The Willows Inn, a nationally acclaimed restaurant on Lummi Island that has been accused of underpaying its employees, has agreed to pay $600,000 to settle a class-action lawsuit over wage theft accusations.
But in the lawsuit filed in Whatcom County Superior Court in 2017, the plaintiffs' attorneys alleged that The Willows Inn had violated state labor and wage laws including the withholding of tips and overtime pay, and in some cases, that it did not pay employees at all for shifts worked.
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