Category: overtime

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

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…


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

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…


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

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…


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

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…