Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\nAccording to the suit, the previous issues resulted in hours of earned compensatory time being lost and alleges the county erased already-earned hours by limiting the total amount of compensatory time that could be accrued. The suit also alleges retired and terminated employees were not paid for their accrued hours.<\/p>\n
The suit also alleges that employees have been retaliated against for filing complaints about the missing pay. <\/p>\n
The lawsuit asks for damages in the form of payment for the unpaid hours and lost wages, as well as pre- and post-judgment interest and incurred legal fees. The suit also includes a class action allegation, allowing any past, current or future employees who worked overtime and were not properly paid to join the suit.<\/p>\n
In addition to the county, the lawsuit names each member of the Dallas County Commissioner\u2019s Court as defendants. A spokesperson with the sheriff\u2019s office did not respond to an email requesting comment Saturday.<\/p>\n
The president of the sheriff\u2019s office labor union, Christopher Dyer, who is a plaintiff in the suit, did not return phone messages seeking comment Saturday. A spokesperson for County Judge Clay Lewis Jenkins said he does not comment on pending litigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lawsuit filed in federal court Friday alleges Dallas County has failed to properly compensate thousands of employees…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":277621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,143545,356,1596,7290,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-277620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-clay-jenkins","10":"tag-courts","11":"tag-dallas","12":"tag-dallas-county","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115317033203014390","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277620","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=277620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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