Records detail overtime spending in Holyoke Police Department
HOLYOKE — Fifteen officers in the Holyoke Police Department were paid more than 500 hours of overtime in fiscal year 2020, including four of the department's five highest-paid officers, who earned hourly overtime rates ranging from $94 to $109 an hour.
Three of those officers claimed more than 800 overtime hours that year, and another claimed more than 1,200 hours.
Kroger-Owned Grocery Chain Sued By Managers For Unpaid Overtime
Mariano's, an Illinois-based grocery chain owned by Kroger Co. , was hit with a federal lawsuit brought by nearly 25 managers in Chicago who claim they were misclassified as administrative employees exempt from overtime pay.
The employees, who worked as personal service managers, were previously included in a Fair Labor Standards Act collective action that was decertified in August. Their new complaint, filed Oct. 8 in the U.S.
Chicago Schools Pay Building Engineers Overtime to Bring Cleanliness Up to Standard | Cleaning
While many school employees enjoyed a long holiday weekend, workers with Chicago Public Schools (CPS) were offered more than double overtime pay to bring buildings to an expected standard of cleanliness , the Chicago Sun-Times reports.
School district officials offered building engineers overtime last Saturday and Sunday, plus a rate two-and-a-half-times normal pay for yesterday's Columbus Day holiday, if they agreed to open their schools so contract custodians could go in and clean.
COVID outbreak ruled as true emergency allowing regular overtime pay for day of rest | Canadian
A British Columbia employer’s need for employees to work on a Saturday qualified for an emergency exemption from paying the employees double time, an arbitrator has ruled.
Baking Company Sued for Misclassifying Deliverymen as Independent Contractors - Agriculture
Former employees of Flowers Food Inc.
Flowers acquired two independent Louisiana bakeries in 2000, converting deliverymen from employees to independent contractors.
"Flowers represents to Plaintiffs that they will run their businesses independently, have the discretion to use their business judgment, and have the ability to manage their businesses to increase profitability.
Employee or Franchisee? Or Both? September 2021 News Update | Locke Lord LLP - JDSupra
In the same month that 7-Eleven prevailed in a federal court trial where convenience store franchisees claimed they were not independent contractors but rather employees entitled to the protections of state labor laws, a federal appellate court concluded last month that franchisees can be
We also report on two newsworthy IC misclassification cases in the oil and gas industry. First, an unsuccessful effort by an oil and gas company to piggyback on the arbitration clause of a workforce app used to staff projects.
Illinois State Police Merit Board's ex-financial officer denies fraud
The allegations, she said, also led to unfounded criminal charges against her for allegedly collecting unjustified overtime pay.
Thornley, 41, a Springfield resident who was chief financial officer of the Illinois State Police Merit Board, was fired July 21, 2020, by the five-member board after working at the agency for more than seven years.
Northampton City Council votes to endorse the Fairness for Farmworkers Act – the shoestring
On Thursday October 7th, the Northampton City Council held its regularly scheduled meeting, most of which was spent listening to public comment in support of the Fairness to Farm Workers Act and engaging with City Clerk Pamela Powers about the redistricting process required due to local
Pay raise include elected officials, Delaware County Council members
MUNCIE, Ind. — Delaware County Council voted to adopt a 2022 budget with $3,000 raises to merit deputies and correctional officers in the sheriff's department. Staff in other departments funded through the county general fund will receive $1,000 raises.
Plans discussed last week, which included raises as high as $4,000 in exchange for the loss of sheriff's department positions along with the dropping of a labor grievance against the county, were scuttled.
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