Category: overtime

Here’s Why Firefighters Across the Country Are Often the Highest Paid Employees in Their Cities

September 18, 2022
Business & MarketseconomyfirefightersovertimesalaryUSUS News
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Across the country, it is not the mayors, municipal judges, city attorneys or city managers who are often the highest-paid municipal employees. Firefighters have become the top-paid employees due to a staffing model that triggers an enormous amount of overtime by mandating any absences must be filled regardless of need. And for those willing to…

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Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Taco Bell Worker in Overtime Dispute

May 23, 2022
Business & EconomyCompaniesJudiciaryovertimeSupreme CourtTaco BellUS
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The Supreme Court ruled unanimously against a Taco Bell franchise operator on May 23, finding a federal appeals court exceeded its authority in fashioning an arbitration-related rule in a fast-food employee’s class-action lawsuit over overtime pay. The lawsuit went forward in federal court but the company involved waited almost eight months before invoking the arbitration…

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Orange County Sheriff’s Department Spent $5 Million Policing Protests and Riots

July 10, 2021
crimedeputiesLocal NewsOrange CountyOrange County Sheriff's Departmentovertimepolicepolitical unrestRegional-Local NewsriotsSouthern CaliforniaUS
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IRVINE, Calif.—Riots and political unrest left the Orange County Sheriff’s Department (OCSD) with a nearly $5 million overtime tab in 2020, The Epoch Times has learned. Data obtained through a public records request shows that overtime pay for policing the political gatherings last year was $4,929,447, a notable increase from other years due to a high amount…

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Orange County Sheriff’s Department Spent $5 Million in Overtime Policing Protests and Riots

July 10, 2021
crimedeputiesLocal NewsOrange CountyOrange County Sheriff's Departmentovertimepolicepolitical unrestRegional-Local NewsriotsSouthern CaliforniaUS
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IRVINE, Calif.—Riots and political unrest left the Orange County Sheriff’s Department (OCSD) with a nearly $5 million overtime tab in 2020, The Epoch Times has learned. Data obtained through a public records request shows that overtime pay for policing the political gatherings last year was $4,929,447, a notable increase from other years due to a high amount…

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