Tag Archives: unpaid overtime

A Wisconsin paramedic has filed a lawsuit in federal court against his employer, Green County Emergency Medical Service, Inc., alleging the agency violated federal and state wage and hour laws by failing to properly pay paramedics for on-call time, mandatory trainings, and overtime hours. Although the complaint was filed by a lone paramedic, it requests the court expand the suit to ...

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 ...

A former Umatilla, Florida, firefighter has filed a lawsuit on behalf of himself and other similarly situated individuals [a.k.a. other current and former firefighters] alleging that his department failed to pay overtime as required by the FLSA. The complaint, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida on September 24, 2025, contains allegations that ...

A 2024 lawsuit filed by three Maryland firefighters alleging violations of both the FLSA and state laws has been settled for a total of $250,000. The main issue was whether the Berlin Fire Company, Inc. could qualify for the FLSA’s “§207(k)” exemption. The plaintiff firefighters argued that Berlin Fire Company did not meet the “public agency” requirement of the exemption ...

A federal lawsuit has been filed against the Briar Reno Fire Department, Inc., alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) in how the department pays its firefighters. The complaint, which was filed by a lone former firefighter in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on June 30, 2025 contains allegations of unpaid overtime and misclassification. According ...

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 ...

Fifteen current and former fire officers from the West Des Moines, Iowa Fire Department have filed a lawsuit against their employer, the City of Des Moines claiming the city failed to pay them as required by the FLSA. More specifically, the fifteen claim they were improperly classified as overtime exempt “white-collar” employees for many years in violation of the FLSA. ...

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 ...

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 ...

The City of Eldora, Iowa is facing an FLSA misclassification lawsuit filed by the city’s former Director of Emergency Medical Services.  Plaintiff Maile Carter worked as the city’s EMS Director from March 2020 until leaving in August 2023. During that time Carter alleges that the city misclassified her and other presumably high-ranking city officials as overtime exempt employees. According to ...