Fair Labor Standards Act for Fire Departments
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Alabama Firefighters Claim City Retaliated Against Them For Filing FLSA Suit
A lawsuit filed by 91 Alabama firefighters who claimed the City of Gadsden was violating the FLSA, has been amended…
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Court Concludes Overtime Exemption for Company Officers Must Go To Jury
The US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio has ruled that a jury must decide whether company officers…
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Nevada Firefighters Claim Overtime Violation Under FLSA
Two Nevada firefighters have filed a class action suit claiming they and their collogues have been wrongly classified as exempt…
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Podcast 29 Firefighter Overtime
In this episode, Curt and Bill Maccarone expound on Curt’s January, 2020 article in Firehouse Magazine addressing the most common…
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Overtime Regs to Change in 2020
The US Department of Labor has formally issued new regulations that will change the way the Fair Labor Standards Act…
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Podcast # 27: Compensation for EMS Training Time
In this episode, Curt discusses an FLSA lawsuit filed by a Memphis firefighter, Jon Misewicz, over the issue of whether…
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FLSA, Executive Exemption, Threats and Retaliation
Today’s burning question: The line chiefs in my fire department (deputy and battalion chiefs assigned to shifts) have gotten together…
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Wichita Settles Fire Investigators’ FLSA Claims for $155k
The city of Wichita has reached a settlement with six fire investigators who filed suit late last year claiming they…
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Compensation For Work While On Vacation
Today’s burning question: We are combination department in which our full-time firefighters are permitted to respond back to alarms. We…
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San Luis Obispo FLSA Settlement Calls For $3k In Damages $54k in Attorney’s Fees
The City of San Luis Obispo has reached an agreement to settle a Fair Labor Standards Act overtime lawsuit filed…
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California Firefighters Battle With Mayor
This past weekend, a local newspaper in California wrote about a nasty dispute between the mayor of the City of…
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Volunteers, Day Time Help and the FLSA
Today’s burning question: Our volunteer fire department is struggling to get enough help weekdays. We are thinking about paying some…
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Court Approves Settlement in California Firefighters’ Overtime Suit
A court-approved settlement has been reached between Modesto firefighters and the City of Modesto in a Fair Labor Standards Act…
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Are Battalion Chiefs Subject to The Highly Compensated Employee Exemption
Today's burning question: I am a city manager and I just read about an exception in the Fair Labor Standards…
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