Overtime Case Filed Against the State of Vermont

Bergeron Paradis Fitzpatrick is prosecuting a State Employee Overtime lawsuit to enforce state employee overtime rights under federal law. Lead counsel on the case is Tom Somers, who explains the focus of the suit this way:

“It is unlawful for the state to pay its employees only straight time for overtime.  The state is required to pay its employees at a rate of time and a half for all hours worked over 40 in a work week. State employees cannot  benefit from the lawsuit unless they join, as nearly 40 other state employees have done already.”  

He further explains: “ If you are or have been in pay grades 23 and above in the last three years and are or were in the non-management, supervisory, corrections or judiciary bargaining units and worked over forty hours in a week you qualify to join this case.  You may be entitled to double the amount of back pay your are owed, going back three years.  There will be no fee unless there is a recovery from the State.” 

Watch a video in which Tom Somers explains the case and how state employees can become involved:

 For more information regarding this case, please call Tom Somers or David Aman at 863-1191 or by email at tsomers@burlington.bpflegal.com or daman@burlington.bpflegal.com.