- 3 - headquarters. Petitioner Connelly was employed by the Kansas State Highway Patrol from 1960 until 1993. During his tenure, he was a field trooper, field sergeant, field lieutenant, and field captain. He retired in February 1992 and was rehired the following day by the highway patrol as a motor-carrier inspection lieutenant until his termination in 1993. Jacobs and Connelly joined in a suit entitled Kinnett v. State of Kansas, Case Nos. 90-4209-DES, 90-4214-DES, and 90- 4215-DES, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas in 1990 (Kinnett). Kinnett involved claims under the FLSA for unpaid overtime compensation for employee-plaintiffs who had been classified as exempt from the requirements of the act. The amended complaint alleged that the defendant had employed the plaintiffs on an hourly basis but required them to work in excess of the hourly levels specified in 29 U.S.C. section 207 and did not compensate the plaintiffs for their overtime hours. Both Jacobs and Connelly had consistently worked in excess of 40 hours a week during their tenure. The employee-plaintiffs’ action challenged the exempt classification as improper because the employees did not meet the exemption test set forth in 29 C.F.R. section 541.118 (1991) and sought “unpaid overtime compensation, * * * liquidated damages, * * * attorney’s fee * * * and costs” underPage: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next
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