Carter v. Gibbs

FRIEDMAN, Circuit Judge.

The question in this case, here on appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California, is whether government employees who are covered by a collective bargaining agreement containing a grievance procedure that does not exclude overtime claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act are precluded by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 from maintaining a suit in the district court for overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The district court held that the Civil Service Reform Act bars such a suit. Carter v. Gibbs, 690 F.Supp. 897…