Perrodin v. City of Lafayette

JiSULLIVAN, Judge.

Thirteen firefighters filed this class action suit on behalf of all full-time firemen employed by the City of Lafayette. The plaintiffs alleged that changes to the City’s “holiday pay” policy failed to compensate shift-duty firemen for the minimum number of holidays required by La.R.S. 33:1999 and discriminated against firefighters among themselves and with other fire department employees. The trial court rejected all but one of the plaintiffs’ demands, and they have appealed.

Facts

The City employs three rotating crews of firemen, called fireline shift employees. At one time,…