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In the latest round of litigation involving West Virginia firefighters and their entitlement to holiday pay, the City of Parkersburg has been found in violation of West Virginia state law by failing to adequately compensate city firefighters for recognized holidays. The decision, which was issued by Wood Circuit Judge J.D. Beane on December 12, requires the city to start paying ...

The City of Martinsburg, West Virginia has reached a $1.75 million settlement with a group of thirty-seven current and former city firefighters following a 2018 lawsuit over holiday pay. The settlement ends more than three years of legal wrangling between the city and firefighters that eventually made it all the way to the West Virginia Supreme Court. The firefighters had ...

The long running legal battle between the City of Morgantown, West Virginia and its firefighters over holiday pay does not appear to be coming to an end anytime soon. This past week city firefighters filed an amended complaint in state court claiming the city owes firefighters almost $6.5 million after years of improperly calculating their holiday pay. The firefighters had ...

In the latest bit of legal wrangling between the City of Martinsburg and its professional firefighters, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has denied the city’s appeal seeking to reverse an earlier ruling by a lower court, in favor of the firefighters. As a result, the 2018 lawsuit which centers around a highly unique West Virginia statute related to ...

Firefighters in Morgantown, West Virginia have demanded a public hearing with the city’s civil service commission following allegations of retaliation for refusing to settle a 2019 lawsuit over holiday pay. In June 2019, fifty-eight Morgantown firefighters filed the lawsuit alleging the City of Morgantown violated a West Virginia law that requires either paid time off, or time-and-one-half pay for all ...

Lawyers representing the City of Martinsburg, West Virginia recently announced that the city will appeal a state court decision over holiday compensation for the city’s firefighters. In a February 2020 decision, Judge Laura Faircloth found as a matter of law [i.e. absent a trial], that the city’s holiday pay plan for its firefighters violated the West Virginia Wage Payment and ...