Nitro City Council members passed a resolution Tuesday night to establish overtime payment policy until appropriate ordinances can be passed. Under the resolution, employees on paid leave who are called in off hours will be paid time and a half. According to Councilman Craig Matthews, the resolution is a temporary measure to standardize overtime payment while the ordinance committee is revising the entire employee handbook.
PATERSON -- The City Council has blocked payment of $207,000 in overtime to city employees who responded to Tropical Storm Lee, and it also has censured Mayor Jeffery Jones for walking out of a hearing. The council removed the amount Tuesday night from a list of routine expenses that were submitted for payment, citing the controversy surrounding $756,000 in overtime checks that were cut after Hurricane Irene, Councilman Kenneth Morris Jr. said Wednesday.
Kanawha County commissioners are heading toward establishing a new policy dealing with employees' leave time and overtime - and the case of former sheriff's department employee Kevin Quinlan is a big reason why. The commissioners rejected a request Thursday evening to pay $952.32 the sheriff's department contended is due to Quinlan for four days of unused annual leave time.
An employee could sue under the Fair Labor Standard Act based on an allegation that she suffered retaliation for making an internal report to her employer concerning alleged overtime violations, the 4th Circuit has ruled in reversing a dismissal. The plaintiff worked as a medical technologist for the defendant. She was fired the day after she met with a company executive to report that her supervisor altered employee timesheets to avoid the payment of overtime. The plaintiff sued the defendant, alleging that her termination violated the Fair Labor Standard Act's anti- retaliation provision.
BOGOTA, Colombia, May 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Minister of Social Protection in Colombia has fined Sodexo $2,678,000 pesos ($1,425.00 US Dollars) each day they refuse to negotiate with Sinaltrainal and ordered Sodexo to "start direct talks with trade union organization National Union of Agro-System SINALTRAINAL without delay." Sodexo workers in Colombia have been trying to form a union to bargain higher wages, payment for overtime and other benefits for more than a year. Working conditions in Colombia for Sodexo workers at remote sites like the Carbones de la Jagua Mine can be grim. According to a report put out by TransAfrica Forum, a human rights organization in the United States, workers there report that they frequently work 16 hours or more without overtime pay to wh...
A federal judge on Friday ordered Pittsburgh to pay $825,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by police officers who claim they were paid less in overtime than they were entitled to over a three-year period. The lawsuit was filed by Dan O'Hara, president of Fort Pitt Lodge No. 1 of the Fraternal Order of Police, on behalf of more than 900 officers who were entitled to a shift differential and longevity payment when overtime pay was calculated during 2006, 2007 and 2008, according to the suit.
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