Public Employees
Haynes v. Department of Public Safety (Utah Ct. App., February 6, 2020) (reversing dismissal of Haynes’s breach of contract action: the relevant terms of the settlement agreement under which Haynes supposedly failed to perform were ambiguous)
Wages
Aguilar v. Management and Training Corp. (10th Cir., February 4, 2020) (reversing summary judgment in favor of MTC: The pre- and postshift activities the officers engage in—the preshift briefing, walking to and from post, and the passdown briefings—are part of the officers’ continuous workday and are therefore compensable)
*Betts v. Work Zone Traffic Control, Inc. (10th Cir., February 6, 2020) (reversing summary judgment in favor of Work Zone in Betts’s action for retaliation in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act: His evidence regarding overtime pay raised genuine issues of material fact)
Workers Compensation ~ Ocuppational Safety and Disease
Ezell v. BNSF Railway Company (10th Cir., February 5, 2020) (affirming summary judgment in favor of BNSF: the evidence establishes that the job of railroad conductors is reasonably safe—Ezell’s proffer of safer alternatives does not show negligence)
*Cases marked with an asterisk are not binding precedent, except under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, and collateral estoppel.
