Another overtime lawsuit: Ex-Montgomery Advertiser SE sues Gannett

http://www.courthousenews.com/2009/10/06/Montgomery%20Advertiser.pdf

David Johnson is suing Gannett accusing his bosses of forcing him to deny comp time and overtime to his employees. When he kept protesting, they fired him.

Johnson told his staff to document each and every hour, but the higher-ups told him to essentially do more with less.

This stuff is getting good.

 

Nice... Good to see Gannett involved in a suit.

 

This kind of thing makes me thankful that we had paper timesheets at our shop. We filled them out ourselves and I documented every millisecond I spent working there. They may have thrown me under the bus come layoff time, but I made sure I was paid for every moment of 4 3/4 years of hard work.

 

I wonder if we can get a class action lawsuit going. I'm not even joking.

 

There were numerous times where I didn't mark down a half hour or hour of overtime because I was told we weren't allowed overtime. Wasn't worth dealing with on Friday. Didn't want to stir the pot. Just kept looking for a new job instead.

 

Hey. Craig Dubow is mentioned in the suit. Gee, I hope that back is OK...

 

FYI --- David Johnson and the LC Johnson who once covered the Magic for the Orlando Sentinel are the same person ...


Here's the best part from the link:

 

A half hour to an hour, I can understand, especially if there are times where you work 39 hours or so.

It's when it becomes abusive (to me, more than two hours regularly without it ever going the other way), that the lawyer becomes necessary.

 

He was fired in November 2008 and he files suit in 2010.

My only question is what took him so g-d long?

 

Probably sought a settlement and sued when that didn't work out.

 

Not knowing anything about the case, but maybe it took a while to find a lawyer to take the case?

 

When did he change his name from LC to David?