FLSA Collective Action

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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: Jeffrey Allen, et al. v. City of Chicago

Case No.: 16-1029

Officials: EASTERBROOK, MANION, and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges.

Focus: FLSA Collective Action

This appeal arises from a Fair Labor Standards Act collective action. Plaintiffs are current and former members of the Chicago Police Department’s Bureau of Organized Crime who claim that the Bureau did not compensate them for work they did off-duty on their mobile electronic devices (BlackBerrys). The case was tried to the court, Magistrate Judge Schenkier, presiding by consent under 28 U.S.C. § 636(c). The judge issued detailed findings of fact and conclusions of law in favor of the Bureau, finding that it did not prevent plaintiffs from requesting payment for such nonscheduled overtime work and did not know that plaintiffs were not being paid for it. Plaintiffs appeal, but we find no persuasive reason to upset the judgment of the district court. We affirm the judgment for the Bureau.

Affirmed

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