AK Juvenile Detention Center’s Pay Practices Out of Line, Suit Says

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A former employee of South Arkansas Youth Services Inc. has filed suit against the juvenile detention center and an individual with control of the business over claims that he was denied proper overtime wages, following another suit filed in September. The plaintiff says he worked for the defendants as a team leader from 1999 to 2009 and a supervisor from 2009 to March 2017. He claims he was often required to work beyond his scheduled 40-hour workweek and was rarely able to take a lunch break. Nevertheless, the suit argues, the defendants deducted 30 minutes from his hours for lunch each day and failed to pay him time-and-a-half overtime wages for the hours he worked above 40 each week.