Number
020378
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
Resolution approving settlement in the action entitled Bradley DeBraska, et al. v. City of Milwaukee, U.S. District Court Case No. 96-C-402, and authorizing expenditure of funds from the Damages and Claims Fund for implementing the settlement terms.
Analysis
This resolution approves the settlement of the case entitled Bradley DeBraska, et al. v. City of Milwaukee, U.S. District Court Case No. 96-C-402, regarding whether the prevailing system in effect within the Milwaukee Police Department for affording police officers access to their accrued compensatory time off complied with applicable requirements imposed by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The U.S. District Court issued a decision concluding that it was not in compliance, and that the system violated the requirements of FLSA.
The terms of the settlement provide for: payment of a stipulated amount to certain police officers; payment by the City to counsel for the plaintiffs of a stipulated amount representing attorneys' fees; and certain revisions to the provisions of the collective bargaining agreement between the City and the MPA pertaining to overtime benefits.
This resolution further authorizes expenditure of funds from the Damages and Claims Fund for payments required by the settlement.
This resolution further authorizes an expenditure not to exceed $10,000.00 from the Damages and Claims Fund for payments to eligible current and former police officers under the settlement, and also authorizes expenditure of $216,291.50 from the fund for attorneys' fees, costs, and expenses of counsel for the plaintiffs.
Body
Whereas, A complaint was filed on April 8, 1996, by Bradley DeBraska, et al., and by over 1,400 individual police officers currently or formerly in the employ of the City of Milwaukee against the City of Milwaukee, alleging that the City had violated the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. ยง 201, ...
Click here for full text