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A group of more than one hundred current and former employees of the East Hartford Fire Department have filed a federal lawsuit against the Town of East Hartford, Connecticut, alleging violations of the FLSA. The plaintiffs (firefighters) make two basic claims. First, that the Town failed to calculate the firefighters’ regular rate correctly and as a result shorted the firefighters’ ...

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), Wage and Hour Division, kicked off the new year with a new opinion letter addressing whether certain employer sponsored incentive bonuses can be excluded from an employee’s “regular rate of pay” when calculating overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The opinion letter responds to a request from an overtime eligible employee that ...

A federal court judge has refused to toss out a lawsuit brought by nearly 60 current and former Morgantown, West Virginia, firefighters challenging the city’s method of calculating overtime pay. The firefighters filed the lawsuit in the summer of 2024, alleging that the city improperly calculates their firefighters’ regular rate of pay. The proper calculation of an employee’s regular rate ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sixty-seven current and former firefighters from Brownsburg, Indiana have filed suit in federal court alleging the town’s pay practices violate the FLSA.  The firefighters’ claim the town failed to pay overtime when required and improperly calculated the firefighters’ regular and overtime rates of pay. Quoting from the complaint: Unpaid Overtime Claims: During the periods that Plaintiffs have worked in excess ...

More than three dozen firefighters have filed an FLSA lawsuit against their employer, the City of Haywood, California alleging that the city improperly calculated their regular rate of pay in violation of the FLSA. The lawsuit was filed by thirty-seven named plaintiffs and other “similarly situated individuals.” This likely means that additional current and former firefighters will join in on ...

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 ...

The Bartlesville, Oklahoma City Council is poised to approve a settlement offer intended to resolve a lawsuit filed in federal court last week by 75 current and former city firefighters. The firefighters’ complaint contains allegations that the city violated the FLSA by failing to include “various stipends” in their regular rate of pay. According to the complaint, these stipends include: ...

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 ...