City of Newark, NJ

City of Newark, NJ

This class and collective action lawsuit is brought on behalf of individuals employed since August 2019 in the City’s Police Division in the rank of Police Officer, Detectives, Sergeants, Lieutenants, and Captains that have been credited with working overtime hours in which they also received extra payments for longevity, stress, detective work, bomb squad work, emergency response work, or canine unit work. The lawsuit alleges that the City failed to pay full overtime premium wages in accordance with federal and New Jersey wage law.

This lawsuit is pending, and the City denies liability.  Please contact us if you have any questions about the lawsuit.  We would be happy to answer your questions and provide you with additional information.

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  • "Winebrake & Santillo has a considerable record in employment matters."
    Winebrake & Santillo has a considerable record in employment matters.
    - Ricci v. Newrez LLC, 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 186727, at *23 (E.D. Pa. Oct. 17, 2023)
  • "Significant experience"

    Attorney Andy Santillo and his co-counsel are “patently qualified” attorneys who “have significant experience with wage payment and collections cases, knowledge of wage-and-hour law, and have clearly done significant work already in this case throughout discovery and the preparation of the motions and opposition papers now before the Court."

    - MARTINEZ V. AMAZON.COM SERVS. LLC, 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 209566, *28, *42-43 (D. Md. Nov. 18, 2024)
  • "An established record"

    W&S and its co-counsel "have an established record of competent and successful prosecution of large wage and hour class actions."

    - Lapan v. Dick’s Sporting Goods, Inc., 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 169508, *7 (D. Mass. Dec. 11, 2015)
  • "Experienced wage and hour class action litigators"

    W&S and its co-counsel "are experienced wage and hour class action litigators with decades of accomplished complex class action between them and that the Class Members have benefited tremendously from able counsel’s representation."

    - Craig v. Rite Aid Corp., 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 2658, *45 (M.D. Pa. Jan 7, 2013)