Legal Opinion
Bankston v. Illinois
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 26, 1995No. Nos. 94-1160, 94-1837, and 94-1838PublishedCited by 77 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiffs, all police officers for the Illinois Department of Central Management Services (CMS), sued their employer for damages and back wages under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 201-219, and the Illinois Minimum Wage Law, 820 ILCS 105/1-15 (1992). They alleged that the state failed to pay them for the pre- and post-shift hours and lunch hours they worked. They also claimed that the state did not pay them at one-and-one-half times their normal rate, as the FLSA requires, for overtime they worked from 1990 forward. The defendants claimed that the…
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