The National Treasury Employees Union has announced that it
won settlement on a national grievance it filed against the
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in July 2003.
The settlement makes certain OCC employees eligibility for
back pay and damages improperly-paid overtime covering more
than two years, the union said.
NTEU filed the grievance shortly after OCC reclassified
some of its bargaining unit positions from exempt, to not
exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act — to ensure that
employees got the same range of FLSA “remedies,” according
to the union.
The “full remedy” it sought under the FLSA included
“liquidated damages, for bargaining unit employees who
were underpaid for overtime work prior to the
reclassification, or who had worked uncompensated
overtime,” said NTEU, which represents about 2,200 OCC
employees.
