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WIN in Court !!!
Read Opinion
in case #CA
05 00029
$20 Million Dollar
liability, and rising!
Find out how much has
been stolen
from each officer?
How
does the
Supreme Court operate? Click for FAQ's
$20 Million
Dollars?
How could it be so much? There are an
estimated 500 firefighters and police involved in this case. If you apply the
estimated lost wages for each officer, and then add pension costs only, the
numbers are clear. These are only estimates because accountants would first need
to calculate where an officer would have been in 1996 if the correct pay
adjustments had been applied annually since 1978 when the illegal procedure
began.
|
Conservative Estimates |
| Lost wages and interest per officer |
$32,162.20 |
| Number of officers |
x 500
|
| Total wages and interest |
$16,081,100.00 |
| Pension costs approx. 25% |
$4,020,275.00 |
| Total wages, interest, & pension |
$20,101,375.00* |
| *Legal fees and other costs
not represented here will add millions. |
How much has been stolen from each officer? To provide an estimate of lost wages we must look
first at a career officer and what has been stolen and is now unrecoverable due
to laws relating to lost back pay. In particular, you may only recover up to
three years prior to the filing of a wage lawsuit, and all wages from the filing
forward until resolved.
Career Officer - Supplemental Pay Lost Wages
1978 – 2005
 | Actual employee hired on 03/28/1978 and
was eligible to begin receiving Supplemental Pay after one year of
continuous service. |
|
Date |
Amount |
Duration / Months |
Lost Wages
|
|
03/28/1978 - 03/27/1979 |
|
12 |
|
|
03/27/1979 - 10/01/1979 |
$150 |
6 |
$900 |
|
10/01/1979 - 10/01/1980 |
165 |
12 |
1980 |
|
10/01/1980 - 05/01/1981 |
182 |
7 |
1274 |
|
05/01/1981 - 10/01/1981 |
212 |
5 |
1060 |
|
10/01/1981 - 05/01/1984 |
229 |
31 |
7099 |
|
05/01/1984 - 12/14/1986 |
260 |
31 |
8060 |
|
12/14/1986 - 02/22/1987 |
216 |
2 |
432 |
|
02/22/1987 - 04/19/1987 |
214 |
2 |
428 |
|
04/19/1987 - 04/17/1988 |
260 |
12 |
3120 |
|
04/17/1988 - 07/24/1988 |
221 |
3 |
663 |
|
07/24/1988 - 10/28/1990 |
195 |
27 |
5265 |
|
10/28/1990 - 01/28/1996 |
260 |
63 |
16380 |
|
|
Lost wages before lawsuit. |
$46,661 |
|
Police file lawsuit February 1999 for 3
years lost wages. |
|
02/28/1996 – 07/27/1997 |
278 |
17 |
4726 |
|
07/27/1997 – 11/01/2001 |
300 |
51 |
15300 |
|
Wages lost during lawsuit. |
68 |
* $20,026 |
|
Total gross wages lost before and during
lawsuit. |
$66,687.00 |
|
|
|
|
**Estimated total with Judicial compound
interest calculated from 02/28/96 – 11/01/05 |
$32,162.20 |
|
Estimated wages stolen
and not recoverable in lawsuit |
$34,524.80 |
*
Total lost wages during lawsuit without interest.
** Judicial compound interest is due on wages lost
from 02/28/1996 thru the final settlement date (estimated to be 11/01/2005 for
illustrative purposes).
http://www.lsba.org/Legal_Library/judicial_interest_rate.html
Gross wages lost during
Lawsuit:
| February 1999, Lafayette Police file wage lawsuit
in for three years back lost wages. |
| February 1996 is first month of lost wages. |
| November 2001, Pay Plan corrected and wage theft
ends. |
|
Date |
Supplemental Pay Amount |
Duration / Months |
Lost wages
|
|
*02/28/1996
– 06/27/1997 |
$
278 |
17 |
$ 4,726
|
|
**07/28/1996
– 11/01/2001 |
300 |
52 |
$15,600
|
|
Gross wages lost
during Lawsuit per firefighter. |
69 |
$ 20, 326
|
*
State Pay was $278 from 02/28/1996 – 06/27/1997
** State Pay was increased to $300 from 07/28/1996
thru 11/01/2001.
Judicial Interest Calculations:
http://www.lsba.org/Legal_Library/judicial_interest_rate.html
|
Date |
Judicial Interest Rate % |
Duration / Months
|
State
Pay
Monthly
Amount $ |
Lost
wages $ |
Interest $ |
Total $ |
|
02/28/96 – 12/31/96 |
9.75 |
11 |
278 |
3058 |
153.19 |
3211.19 |
|
01/01/97 – 06/31/97 |
9.25 |
6 |
278 |
1668 |
196.99 |
5076.18 |
|
07/01/97 – 07/31/97 |
9.25 |
1 |
300 |
300 |
41.44 |
5417.62 |
|
08/01/97 – 12/31/97 |
7.9 |
5 |
300 |
1500 |
259.48 |
7477.10 |
|
01/01/98 – 12/31/98 |
7.6 |
12 |
300 |
3600 |
740.17 |
11817.27 |
|
01/01/99 – 12/31/99 |
6.73 |
12 |
300 |
3600 |
954.27 |
16371.54 |
|
01/01/00 – 12/31/00 |
7.285 |
12 |
300 |
3600 |
1378.57 |
21350.11 |
|
01/01/01 – 10/31/01 |
8.241 |
10 |
300 |
3000 |
1628.05 |
25978.16 |
|
Pay Plan corrected
in November 2001 |
|
|
|
|
|
$25978.16 |
|
11/01/01 – 12/31/01 |
8.241 |
2 |
|
|
357.79 |
26335.95 |
|
01/01/02 – 12/31/02 |
5.75 |
12 |
|
|
1514.32 |
27850.27 |
|
01/01/03 – 12/31/03 |
4.5 |
12 |
|
|
1253.26 |
29103.53 |
|
01/01/04 – 12/31/04 |
5.25 |
12 |
|
|
1527.94 |
30631.47 |
|
01/01/05 – 10/31/05 |
6.00 |
10 |
|
|
1530.73 |
32162.20 |
|
Projected lost wages and interest per
firefighter by November 2005 |
|
|
$32162.20 |
|
