NEWTON COUNTY — A bunch of faculty useful resource officers at Newton County Faculties is suing the district on allegations of unpaid time beyond regulation.
In a March 30 submitting with the U.S. Northern District Court docket of Georgia, Gregory McCarthy — who has labored as a college useful resource officer for NCS since 2023 — claims that he’s owed a considerable quantity of unpaid time beyond regulation wages.
McCarthy says that he was required to work throughout particular occasions equivalent to soccer video games, basketball video games and graduations on an occasion fee of $45/hr. He claims that fee is a violation of the Honest Labor Requirements Act [FLSA] and that he must be compensated 1.5 occasions his hourly fee of $43.40.
“This ‘occasion pay’ fee is much under the FLSA’s required one-and-one-halftimes fee,” per web page 4 of the nine-page submitting. “As a result of work at such particular occasions is nearly all the time along with Plaintiff’s full 40-hour workweek, virtually all the time labored at particular occasions ends in an FLSA violation by NCSD [Newton County School District].”
McCarthy added that he acquired time beyond regulation pay for added work previous the 40-hour mark unrelated to occasions.
Newton County Faculties issued the next assertion to The Covington Information:
“Newton County Faculties has not been made conscious of any authorized motion involving these people, a few of whom are former staff and one who’s at present employed by the district. The district doesn’t touch upon pending or potential litigation.”
4 different plaintiffs — Maranda Thomas, Ray Rodgriuez, Raymond Sims and Jeremiah Culberth — have opted in as co-plaintiffs, in keeping with courtroom filings. All 4 both work or have labored as a college useful resource officer inside the final three years.
The plaintiffs are looking for to recoup all unpaid time beyond regulation, curiosity, courtroom prices, lawyer’s charges and “any and such different additional aid this Court docket deems simply, equitable and correct.”
Moreover, McCarthy’s attorneys, Charles Bridgers and Matthew Herrington, are looking for collective motion, which might enable others doubtlessly affected by the allegations to decide in to the swimsuit.
“All NCSD elementary college useful resource officers who’ve labored for NCSD throughout the three years previous to the submitting of this motion are ‘equally located’ inside the that means of 29 U.S.C. § 216(b),” per pages 7 and eight of the submitting. “NCSD is liable to members of the proposed collective for all unpaid time beyond regulation wages, liquidated damages, prices of litigation and cheap lawyer’s charges, and different such equitable and authorized aid that this Court docket finds correct.”
