The New York Mets were hit with a class action lawsuit alleging security guards at Citi Field are not being paid time and one half for over 40 hours per week. Hourly employees must be paid time and one half their hourly rate for all hours over 40 per week, with no exceptions. For example, if a security guard is paid $20 per hour, they must be paid $30 per hour for all overtime hours. Many security companies have been sued for similar violations in the past few years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The New York Mets were hit with a class action lawsuit alleging security guards at Citi Field are not being paid time and one half for over 40 hours per week. Hourly employees must be paid time and one half their hourly rate for all hours over 40 per week, with no exceptions. For example, if a security guard is paid $20 per hour, they must be paid $30 per hour for all overtime hours. Many security …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment-law"],"yoast_head":"\n