United States Eighth Circuit

Summary judgment to plaintiffs-firefighters in a wage dispute is affirmed where lump sum payments awarded to firefighters under the defendant-municipality's sick leave buy-back program were properly included in plaintiffs' regular rate of pay for Fair Labor Standards Act purposes.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/08/2006
• Published 02/08/2006

Judges

• Before LOKEN, Chief Judge, LAY and BENTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert John Krehbiel, argued, St. Louis, Missouri, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Douglas L. Steele, argued, Washington, D.C. (Thomas A. Woodley and Deirdre C. Fitzpatrick, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for appellee.