Tag Archives: DOL

Pasco County Fire Rescue is pioneering a significant change in firefighter scheduling, transitioning from the conventional 24 hours on followed by 48 hours off shift schedule, to a 24‑hour on and 72‑hour off shift schedule. The new shift schedule will result in a 42-hour average workweek for the county’s firefighters. According to Fox 13, the new shift schedule aims to ...

Eagle County, Colorado [a mostly rural county located in central Colorado] is facing an FLSA lawsuit filed by an Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting (ARFF) firefighter on behalf of himself and other “similarly situated individuals.” The lawsuit alleges that the county misclassifies the plaintiff firefighter and other county employees as § 207(k) firefighters in violation of the FLSA. The main allegation ...

On July 24, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division announced the Payroll Audit Independent Determination (PAID) program has returned. The PAID program, which we initially covered in March 2018, and again in September 2020, [see coverage below] allows employers an opportunity to determine if their organization is FLSA compliant and rectify any past mistakes while ...

A federal district court ruled that District Chiefs (DCs) in the City of Orlando’s Fire Department are exempt from any FLSA overtime pay. In a somewhat unusual ruling, United States District Judge Carlos Mendoza accepted the City of Orlando’s request to have an earlier ruling “reconsidered” and ultimately found the DCs met the requirements necessary to be classified as overtime ...

Three Kansas City, Missouri firefighters and one single-role paramedic have filed a federal lawsuit alleging that the city violated the FLSA by failing to include certain hours worked by city firefighters and medics towards overtime eligibility. More specifically, according to the complaint—which was filed on behalf of the four named plaintiffs and other similarly situated individuals [a.k.a. other firefighters and ...

A group of seven current and former FDNY Battalion Chiefs have filed a federal lawsuit alleging the City of New York improperly classified them as overtime exempt executive employees in violation of the FLSA.  The seven battalion chiefs filed the lawsuit on behalf of themselves and other “similarly situated individuals” in the United States District Court for the Southern District ...

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) just announced that it will begin issuing opinion letters once again after a four-year break. An opinion letter is an official written interpretation of federal wage and hour law. Generally, an opinion letter will answer a specific fact-based question related to existing wage and hour laws. Employers, labor organizations, lawyers, HR professionals, and even ...

The City of Milford, Connecticut has settled a lawsuit filed by a group of eighty-eight current and former firefighters for a total of $400,000. The settlement includes $100,000 to pay the firefighters’ attorneys and the remaining $300,000 divided among the plaintiff firefighters to cover back wages and damages. The firefighters alleged in a 2023 federal lawsuit that city failed to ...

The Town of Brookline, Massachusetts and group of more than 100 current and former firefighters and officers have reached a settlement to resolve a 2023 lawsuit. The lawsuit, which was filed in federal court on December 1, 2023, by two Brookline fire lieutenants quickly grew to include a class of 119 other current and former Brookline firefighters and officers. The ...

A group of more than forty current and former Los Angeles police officers have filed a lawsuit alleging the city’s pay practices violate the FLSA. The officers’ complaint was filed in federal court this week as a collective action and will likely grow to include more “similarly situated” officers. According to the complaint, the city fails to include educational incentives ...