NYC School-Safety Cops Earn Collective Status in Wage Suit

Feb. 26, 2020, 5:59 PM UTC

The City of New York and the NYPD must face a Fair Labor Standards Act collective of more than 3,000 school-safety agents who say they weren’t paid for pre-shift or meal-period work, after a federal court granted final certification.

The agents have persuasively shown that their claims arise out of the same timekeeping and overtime policies prohibiting them from getting paid for unscheduled overtime work done before shifts and during meal periods, Judge Lorna G. Schofield of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York said Wednesday.

The evidence shows that the New York Police Department agents ...

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