Texas Sheriff’s Office Workers Lose Bid to Revive Comp-Time Case

Workers who say the Harris County Sheriff’s Office’s new policy wrongly restricts how they can use time off intended to compensate them for overtime shifts failed to convince a federal appeals court to revive their lawsuit Thursday.

The policy change—which requires workers to use up compensatory time before taking sick leave or other types of paid time off—doesn’t run afoul of the US Constitution’s due process clause because the deputy sheriffs, detention officers, and administrative employees who sued as a would-be class didn’t identify a protected property interest, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said in an ...