May 12, 2021
A Golden State fire district agreed to pay $100,000 to settle a collective action claiming it cheated firefighters out of their full overtime wages by miscalculating their regular rate of pay, according to an order filed in California federal court.
March 08, 2021
A California fire department can't settle just yet with a proposed collective of firefighters who claimed they were shorted on overtime pay, after a federal judge refused to approve their agreement because it included a union and employees who had not joined the suit.