Bailey v. County of Loudoun
Annotate this CaseLoudoun County’s Board of Supervisors required the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office to implement three employment practices to reduce the hours that would be considered overtime. The Board also raised the number of hours constituting the law-enforcement employees’ regularly scheduled work hours. Certain law-enforcement employees, including deputies who worked on patrol, filed suit against the County, the Sheriff’s Office, and the Sheriff, alleging that Defendants violated state and federal law by wrongfully calculating and underpaying overtime hours. The circuit court entered judgment in favor of Defendants on the patrol deputies’ claims. The Supreme Court affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded, holding (1) two of the employment practices adopted by the Sheriff’s Office violated the Virginia Gap Pay Act; and (2) the remaining employment practice neither violated the Act nor violated the employees’ contractual employment rights.
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