Georgetown University will pay up to $550,000 to resolve allegations from the D.C. government that certain hourly employees at the Jesuit institution worked unpaid overtime, according to a settlement announced Tuesday.
The D.C. attorney general’s office said the deal was reached after it investigated Georgetown’s overtime practices in response to a tip last year from a whistleblower. The office alleged that some employees in the university’s medical center and graduate school of arts and sciences were required to work “off the clock,” without compensation, in violation of D.C. law from March 2020 until this year.
Georgetown denied the allegation and said in a statement to its community that it had cooperated fully with investigators. The issues that prompted the investigation arose in research laboratories, the university said, and started around the outset of the coronavirus pandemic. That was a moment of significant upheaval for universities and the entire country.
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Under the settlement terms, the university admitted no wrongdoing but agreed to establish a fund of up to $500,000 for eligible employees to claim and receive payments. The university also agreed to pay the District $50,000 for the cost of the investigation, and it agreed to provide training to hourly medical center and graduate school employees about their right to...
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