Legal Opinion
Moreau v. Harris County
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 19, 1998No. 19-50384PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:
Harris County appeals a grant of summary judgment in favor of a certified class of employees, finding that the County’s policy requiring the use of accrued compensatory time by its employees contravened 29 U.S.C. § 207(o)(5) of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). We are persuaded that the 1985 Amendments to the FLSA do not grant public employees a right to choose when they will use accrued comp time. We reverse.
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The members of the class are employees of the Sheriffs Department of Harris County. The class asserted claims for wrongful refusal of…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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