KCNF Partner Heidi Burakiewicz spoke with Bloomberg Law about the decision denying the government’s motion to dismiss and confirming that the government violated the FLSA when it failed to pay essential employees on their regularly scheduled pay dates during the 35-day government shutdown.
Thousands of federal employees can proceed with a class action filed in the wake of the 35-day partial government shutdown in late 2018 and early 2019 that forced them to work without pay, a U.S. judge ruled.
“The claims brought by plaintiffs in this case are straightforward FLSA minimum wage and overtime claims under the FLSA,” Judge Patricia Campbell-Smith of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims said in her ruling issued Tuesday.