Legal Opinion
O'Brien v. Town of Agawam
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 2, 2003No. 03-1685PublishedCited by 107 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
Current and former police officers of the Town of Agawam, Massachusetts brought suit under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 201 et seq., alleging that the Town’s compensation scheme for police officers violates the FLSA by omitting certain wage augments from the calculation of the officers’ overtime rate. 1 The district court granted summary judgment for the Town, holding that the officers were required to exhaust the binding grievance and arbitration procedures in their collective bargaining agreements, and that in any event the Town had paid the…
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