Nearly 100 city Sanitation Department garbage collectors and supervisors hauled in more than $100,000 in overtime last year — pushing some of their yearly salaries to almost $300,000, payroll records show.
By comparison, just two Sanit workers reaped six figures in OT during the 2019-20 fiscal year and zero in 2018-19 — while the head of their department, Commissioner Edward Grayson, is netting well below that, earning an annual salary of around $230,000, records show.
2 Virginia State Troopers File Lawsuit Seeking Overtime Pay – NBC4 Washington
A Virginia State Police trooper says he hasn't been paid for overtime dating back to the start of 2021, including what he earned while working at the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 rally according to a lawsuit filed against the state on behalf of two troopers.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported Wednesday that one of the troopers hasn't been paid for overtime earned while assisting U.S. Capitol Police following the Jan. 6 rally at the U.S.
Colorado allows overtime pay for farmworkers
States like Texas and Kansas do not have laws that cover overtime for farmwork. In contrast, Colorado is now the seventh state in the country to require overtime for farm and ranch fieldwork.
"We believe that everyone deserves safe and dignified working conditions," said Dan Waldvogle, who is with the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union. "Well compensated employees are in agriculture's best interest.
Willamette Valley Vineyards to start paying farmworkers overtime
The announcement comes as PCUN, Oregon's farmworker union, plans to re-introduce a farmworker overtime bill in the 2022 legislative session, and as a group of farmworkers brings a lawsuit claiming the state is illegally excluding them from overtime pay.
"It starts first with your values, and I know my colleagues who farm have those same values. They just have to figure out how to get from where we are to where we need to be without costing workers their jobs and farmers their farm," Willamette Valley Vineyards founder and CEO Jim Bernau said.
Idaho farms prospered as U.S. sought to pay immigrant workers less.
Farmworkers work in Idaho on Wednesday, June 30. Over 6,000 H-2A workers were employed on Idaho farms between October 2020 to September 2021, the Idaho Department of Labor said.
Thousands of immigrant workers in Idaho who are part of a work visa program will get small pay raises in 2022 after the removal of a Trump-era wage freeze.
Four-day workweek is gaining support among progressives in Congress - Deseret News
Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif., said his "32 Hour Workweek Act" would reduce the standard workweek from 40 hours to 32 hours by lowering the maximum hours threshold for overtime compensation for non-exempt employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
"After a nearly two-year-long pandemic that forced millions of people to explore remote —and shouldn't — simply go back to normal, because normal wasn't working," Takano said in a news release.
SEPTA police to work overtime as crime increases - WHYY
A labor agreement that averted a possible strike by SEPTA's largest union will likely be the last helmed by TWU Local 234 President Willie Brown.
Nearly one year and thousands of work hours after the regional transit agency started work with McKinsey, the $7 million initiative is under review.
Ex-cop seeks payment for care of dog while K-9 handler | News, Sports, Jobs - The Review
According to court documents filed Tuesday in U.S.
Pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act and Ohio Revised Code, Green alleges he was assigned Nero as a canine partner and responsiblity for his care, which approximated to 14.5 hours per week.
Thus, he is asking for that $65,000 in back wages, plus another $65,000 in liquidated damages and reimbursement of his legal fees to bring this action.
The Log4Shell zeroday 4 days on. What is it and how bad is it really? | Ars Technica
Log4Shell is the name given to a critical zeroday vulnerability that surfaced on Thursday when it was exploited in the wild in remote-code compromises against Minecraft servers.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-44228, has a severity rating of 10 out of 10. The zeroday has been exploited at least nine days before it surfaced .
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Top of heap: 94 NYC Sanitation workers net $100K-plus in overtime https://t.co/3bl2LJeD2B https://t.co/jojlISbzUa nypost (from New York, NY) Sun Dec 12 21:45:38 +0000 2021
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