Patrol Officer Claims Employer’s Pay Policies Violate Labor Law

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Parkchester Department of Public Safety LLC, which provides public safety and law enforcement services to a private community in the Bronx, is facing a proposed class action filed by a former employee who argues that he and other patrol officers should have been paid overtime wages. The plaintiff claims the defendant required its employees to report to work 15 minutes before their scheduled shifts each day to participate in a mandatory roll call, but failed to compensate them for the additional time. Similarly, the suit alleges patrol officers sometimes worked beyond the end of their shifts to assist other officers in an arrest. The defendants allegedly employed a policy of paying only the arresting officer proper overtime wages and granting only “comp time” to all other officers, meaning they would be permitted to “take that time off in the future and be paid for it at a straight-time rate.”

As a result, the plaintiff alleges he accrued many overtime hours for which he did not receive time-and-a-half wages as mandated by the Fair Labor Standards Act.