Public works department employees earn high overtime in California city
The city of Brentwood, California, has been found to allocate an high number of overtime hours to employees of its public works department, according to the Oakland Tribune. Last year, public works employees made up more than a third of city workers who earned in excess of $1,000 in overtime.
Assistant department director Chris Ehlers attributed this to the fact that city workers handle an unusual number of additional services such as garbage management, and often respond to emergencies.
In the case of a traffic accident, public works employees are called "for traffic control, for cleaning up the street, if there's a streetlight that needs repair," said Ehlers, as quoted by the news source. "We do what we can during regular working hours, but you need to get the roads working."
The mean overtime pay for employees who collected more than $1,000 in overtime was $5,000, according to the news source.
Paramedics in Willacy County, Texas, are having the opposite problem, according to KGBT News. Rodney Ramos is suing his former employer, Willacy County EMS, for violating the Fair Labor Standards Act by not paying him overtime.
According to his attorney, Ramos plans on going through payroll records to claim overtime from as far back as three years ago.
Assistant department director Chris Ehlers attributed this to the fact that city workers handle an unusual number of additional services such as garbage management, and often respond to emergencies.
In the case of a traffic accident, public works employees are called "for traffic control, for cleaning up the street, if there's a streetlight that needs repair," said Ehlers, as quoted by the news source. "We do what we can during regular working hours, but you need to get the roads working."
The mean overtime pay for employees who collected more than $1,000 in overtime was $5,000, according to the news source.
Paramedics in Willacy County, Texas, are having the opposite problem, according to KGBT News. Rodney Ramos is suing his former employer, Willacy County EMS, for violating the Fair Labor Standards Act by not paying him overtime.
According to his attorney, Ramos plans on going through payroll records to claim overtime from as far back as three years ago.
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