Federal Judge Denies City Bid to Make All School Agents Prove OT Earned

In another positive development for more than 3,800 School Safety Agents part of a lawsuit alleging that they performed uncompensated work, a Federal Judge Feb. 26 blocked the city’s attempt to require that each Agent individually prove that they worked before the start of their shift and during meals without pay.

The suit, which was brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act by the law firms of McGillivary Steele Elkin and Spivak Lipton in June 2017, claims that the Agents were not paid for responding to fights and other work performed during their 30-minute meal periods, for tasks such as turning on security cameras and unlocking doors that were done before the start of their shifts, and for the time they spent traveling to a second work location.