Nassau County and 911 dispatchers who allege overtime and equal pay violations won permission to move forward with a $1.2 million deal ending their wage-and-hour dispute.
The settlement resolves the claims of more than two dozen fire communications technicians who collectively lost out on more than 34,000 hours of break time and could recover more than $41,000 each, the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York said Tuesday.
The workers, most of whom are men, say Nassau County didn’t compensate them for all of their work hours or pay the correct overtime rate. They also accuse the ...
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