Legal Opinion
Lynn Martin, Secretary of Labor v. Coventry Fire District
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 29, 1992No. 92-1750PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BREYER, Chief Judge.
The Coventry Fire District failed to pay some of its employees overtime pay as mandated by the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. § 207. The Secretary of Labor sued the Fire District. The district court awarded damages but denied the Secretary’s request for an injunction prohibiting future violations. The Secretary appeals. She points out that the Act calculates ordinary employee overtime as time and one half for hours worked in a week in excess of 40. It calculates “public fire fighter” overtime specially, however, (reflecting their special working conditions) as time…
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