Tag Archives: unpaid overtime

A former Fire Lieutenant from the Chatham County Fire Department has filed a federal lawsuit against his old employer alleging multiple violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The lawsuit, which was filed by James Zeigler on March 2, 2026, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, contains allegations that the county’s pay practices ...

The City of Gulf Shores has reached a court approved settlement with two former police officers following their November 2025 lawsuit that contained allegations the city failed to properly compensate the officers for off-the-clock work related to the care and maintenance of their assigned K9s. Former officers Shawn Andrews and Stacy McElroy filed the complaint in the U.S. District Court ...

According to a complaint filed January 21, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, an EMT employed by the City of Batesville alleges that the city denied him and other similarly situated EMTs overtime and later retaliated against him after he complained. The lawsuit was filed by Jacob Michael King, a former EMT for Batesville ...

The City of New York has reached a $7.3 million settlement with a class of more than 3,000 current and former EMTs and paramedics following a 2023 FLSA lawsuit. The main allegations advanced by the EMTs and medics revolved around unpaid pre-and-post shift work activities, an automatic deduction of a 30-minute meal period even for work shifts in which work ...

On December 31, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld a lower court’s ruling that found a group of current and former Alexandria battalion chiefs were ineligible for FLSA overtime. The chiefs had challenged the City of Alexandria’s pay practices as unlawful under both federal and state wage and hour laws. In 2023, a federal district ...

A federal lawsuit has been filed in the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina alleging violations of federal and state wage laws related to unpaid off-duty work performed by K-9 deputies. The complaint was filed on December 3, 2025, by John Robert Coker, a former McCormick County Sheriff’s Deputy, against McCormick County and McCormick County Sheriff ...

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 ...