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Fulton County settles pay dispute

By Arielle Kass
Feb 18, 2016

Fulton County commissioners will pay $450,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by several network specialists in the county’s IT department.

The agreement, approved by commissioners Wednesday, comes on the heels of other pay-related disputes among Fulton County workers. In this case the IT employees sad they they were not paid the overtime to which they were entitled.

To read more about the settlement, click here.

About the Author

Arielle Kass covers Gwinnett County for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She started at the paper in 2010, and has covered business and local government beats around metro Atlanta. Arielle is a graduate of Emory University.

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