Many employees put in extra hours in the days and weeks after Hurricane Sandy hit the Eastern Seaboard to get things up and running again. However, a new claim alleges that some of those individuals did not get paid for their time and attendance during the crisis, according to the Daily Gazette. The New York State Public Employees Federation Labor Union (PEF) asserts that 14,469 of its members did not receive the premium pay they were offered.

According to the lawsuit that was recently filed by PEF and printed by the Daily Gazette, the state Division of Budget (DOB) made exceptions to its overtime rules that exclude white-collar positions, such as the one held by Heide-Marie Dudek. As a civil engineer for New York's Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, Dudek is not usually eligible for premium pay if she works more than 40 hours in a single workweek. Due to the extreme conditions after Sandy, the DOB allegedly approved overtime for workers like Dudek so the state could make timely contributions to disaster relief efforts.

They have not yet followed through on that promise, the suit alleges, and PEF is attempting to recover back wages for employees' attendance that sometimes totaled 67 or more hours in a single week.

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