The May 1 ruling came in a Texas case in which the justices rejected a Labor Department ruling and said public employers, like state governments and their agencies, can require employees to take compensatory time off at specific times.
We agree that it's "No Laughing Matter at the Office" (editorial, April 3) that an arbitrator found the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had violated the law by not paying overtime, although granting compensatory time off, to the skilled and dedicated employees who worked past their shifts since 2003.
The union says the company is denying vacation time for some pilots and compensatory time off for others just to keep all its planes flying. .
They also locked in compensatory time off for extra work done, assured that promotions come with raises, and made clear who's eligible for employer-paid cell phones, among other economic matters.
These shifts lasted from 5 pm until 10 pm on weekdays and students were given compensatory time off on the wards.
But the restaurant business is about long hours, so Caron has to pay overtime up to 150% of the basic wage, plus often giving the employee paid compensatory time off.
The new agreement calls for 36 paid time-off days and 12 sick days.
The Nassau County comptroller, Howard Weitzman, said that because of the practice, Dr. Fanelli has often been able to use his compensatory time to take vacations, rather than use regular vacation days.
Indeed, she said, foreign works not eligible to be copyrighted in the United States before the 1994 law are somewhat worse off, as they receive "no compensatory time" for the period they had been in the public domain.
But they have said that unionized city workers had already accepted a pay freeze, as many as 24 furlough days a year and compensatory time in lieu of overtime pay for the past two years to help Mr. Daley save money.
Among the five symptomatic workers, the mean time off from work was 21 days (range, 3 42 days).
