Figueroa v. District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that FLSA claims accrue each time there is a failure to pay earned overtime pay
• holding that failure to pay overtime in one pay period represents a discrete cause of action that does not become a continuing violation merely because it occurred each pay period
• characterizing essential elements as “that [employee] has performed work for which he was improperly compensated”
• “On appeal, the officers challenge only one aspect of the district court’s decision: its conclusion that their FLSA overtime claim[][is] time-barred.”
• “each violation gives rise to a new cause of action, each [cause of action] begins a new statute of limitations period” (quoting Knight v. Columbus, 19 F.3d 579, 582 (11th Cir. 1994))
• “[A]n employee has carried out his burden [in an FLSA action] if he proves that he has in fact performed work for which he was improperly compensated.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).