Four former firefighters with the city of York want almost $1.4 million in unpaid overtime, damages and interest, claiming in a lawsuit they were not paid overtime for years.
The lawsuits, filed March 22 in York County civil court and obtained exclusively by The Herald, seek not just back overtime pay, but “three times the full amount of the unpaid wages, plus pre-judgment interest.”
That claim would push an alleged overtime cost of $420,000 to more than $1.2 million, plus interest at 8.75 percent that would make the total cost almost $1.4 million.
S.C. law allows for three times payment of unpaid wages if proven in a civil court.