It took a Federal jury just two hours to find that the city systematically cheated thousands of Emergency Medical Technicians out of millions of dollars in pay for the time they spend preparing for their shifts and later updating their colleagues who relieve them at the end of their tours.
District Council 37 Local 2507, which represents the EMTs and Paramedics, filed suit in 2013 asserting that members should be paid for the time spent preparing and donning protective gear, as well as for debriefing their relief crews.
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