Those who pledged to protect and serve say Dallas County has not fairly paid them to do so.<\/p>\n
Dallas County Sheriff\u2019s Deputies filed a class action lawsuit in federal court, saying they\u2019re owed years of overtime pay.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a problem that Dallas County Sheriff\u2019s Association President Christopher Dyer says dates back decades.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can go back to 2003 when Dallas County would force employees to work overtime, and they would only give them comp time. Well, now in 2023, they\u2019ve come back and decided they didn\u2019t want us to have all of this comp time anymore and they refuse to pay employees for that time they worked over the years,\u201d said Dyer.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cWe have officers who have hundreds and hundreds and even thousands of hours that the county is simply trying to take away from them without compensation at all,\u201d said Texas Municipal Police Association Executive Director Kevin Lawrence.<\/p>\n
Lawrence said the problem boils down to how the county tracks that time, banking it in different categories.<\/p>\n
The lawsuit claims some of that time was lost during a software glitch and later a policy change.<\/p>\n
Lawrence said the suit is about paying employees what they\u2019re owed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re trying to make ends meet. They\u2019re relying on every dollar that comes in to feed their families, put shows on their feet, etcetera,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHopefully, the county wants to resolve this. Hopefully, the county wants to take care of their employees and this simply is a matter of records have been lost. Somebody\u2019s implemented a policy wrong. Somebody\u2019s pushed a wrong button somewhere and they want to fix it. But so far, all the efforts that we have made, that these employees have made to resolve this without going to litigation have fallen on deaf ears,\u201d said Lawrence.<\/p>\n
When NBC5 contacted Dallas County about the lawsuit, a spokesperson responded saying, \u201cThe Judge [Clay Jenkins] does not comment on pending litigation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Those who pledged to protect and serve say Dallas County has not fairly paid them to do so.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":276408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,7290,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-276407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-county","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115314324124451218","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}