Mon, 08/03/2020
On June 8, 2020, U.S. District Judge Lorna G. Schofield approved a $27.7 settlement agreement in a case brought by 3,867 current and former School Safety Agents (SSAs) for the City of New York alleging unpaid overtime. The SSAs are members of the Teamsters Local 237 Union.
McGillivary Steele Elkin LLP and Spivak Lipton brought this case on behalf of the SSAs under the Fair Labor Standards Act for unpaid overtime work, including time spent traveling between schools, work performed during unpaid meal periods, and for security work performed before starting their shifts.
In a statement made for The Chief Leader, New York’s leading Union news source, managing partner Gregory McGillivary commented that these School Safety Agents “… travel all throughout the city for work, sometimes for as long as an hour, but the city has not been paying. The principle is that you can’t work for the city for free. We’re very happy with the decision and we’re looking forward to hopefully wrapping things up with the city.”
Learn more about this case in the recent The Chief Leader article covering the settlement.
Photo courtesy of NYC Public Schools
