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Today’s FLSA Question: I am a fulltime firefighter in a municipal fire department. Our department allows firefighters to trade shifts with each other. However, the department just fired a firefighter that owes me 48 hours in shift trades. What happens to those hours? Since the department fired the other firefighter, shouldn’t the department be responsible for the 48 hours of ...

The Kansas City, Kansas Fire Department is facing a harassment and discrimination lawsuit filed by a former city firefighter. The lawsuit, brought by former firefighter Jyan Harris in 2018, alleges the city improperly fired him in for “double-dipping” on several occasions in 2015. Harris’s trial began last Thursday, and early indications show that the Kansas City Fire Department’s recordkeeping practices ...