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If you are an employee in downtown Louisville, you should speak to an overtime attorney to see if you are being paid correctly pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The FLSA is what governs an employer to pay an employee the correct wages and salary.

If you work at the ball park, or at a restaurant or even in an office, you should be getting overtime if you are working more than 40 hours per week. Also, depending on your job, the going to the job, or the waiting for a phone call from your employer or the eating at your desk while working, may add up to hours of time that you can claim you are entitled to get paid for that might put you over the 40 hours per work week.

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As this article will show, it does not matter if you work at a small company selling widgets, or at fortune 500 company, or for a city entity, all employers make mistakes as to whether or not they have to pay overtime to their employers. Recently, a Kentucky Court of Appeals court ruled that Louisville firefighters were entitled to back pay for overtime they worked and were not paid for. So, it just goes to show you, that if you are an employee and you work more than 40 hours a week and you do not get overtime, even if you are told you are a salaried employee, that may not be correct and you may be entitled to overtime compensation. As a Louisville overtime lawyer, I can help you understand your legal rights and help you figure out if you are or are not entitled to overtime compensation.

In the firefighter’s case which can be further read in the Louisville Courier Journal paper at http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090904/NEWS01/909040364/Appeals+court+favors+firefighters+in+back+pay+suit the City of Louisville owes more than 800 firefighters back pay going back 15 years. This ruling will cost the city over $7.6 million plus interest. The city already owes the firefighters $19.7 million for another overtime lawsuit. With interest the city could be looking at having to pay over $50 million back out to the firefighters.

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