Frequently Asked Questions

  • You only pay our legal fees if we win!

  • If you are fired for participating in this lawsuit, your employee will be liable for retaliation.

  • Unlikely, and they can be held liable for retaliation if they do.

  • There is power in numbers. A class action allows everyone involved to benefit from the proceedings instead of having to file their own actions individually.

    Additionally, the Court of Federal Claims is more likely to prioritize cases with multiple members.

  • Let's say you were paid $40/hr. Your overtime should have been paid at $60/hr and you worked 10 overtime hours each week.

    You should have been paid an extra $600. With this lawsuit, the government now owes you the $600 for 50 weeks, times 2 for liquidation damages, plus attorney fees.

  • Damages will be calculated individually, not as a lumped sum.

    A "fair" hourly rate will be assessed an applied to the estimated amount of overtime hours worked.

  • Generally, the statute of limitation would be 2 years. In this case, we are working to push it back as far as 2012.

  • We are in conversations with a Forensic Agency who will help us find evidence of overtime hours, such as emails, call logs, security badge swipes, etc.

    It is the employers job to prove working hours. If they don't do that, employees have what is called "Undisputed Evidence" that works in our favor.

  • Yes, you should be compensated for on-call hours. These hours will be included in our calculations.

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