Fransen v. Chief of Police

This bill seeks a declaration that under Dedham’s by-laws certain police officers (of one of whom Mrs. Fransen is administratrix) are entitled to additional pay for hours in *776excess of forty hours (but less than forty-five hours) a week worked by them prior to March 1,1961, when the town adopted G. L. c. 147, § 17B (inserted by St. 1956, c. 349). A master found that the chief of police regularly scheduled the plaintiffs to work in the daytime an average of forty-five hours each week, and that they each received overtime pay for all time worked in excess of forty-five hours a week. The by-laws…