A Portage County sheriff’s deputy has sued the office in federal court, claiming he was subject to retaliation when he requested tens of thousands of dollars in overtime pay.
In his Sept. 15 lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division, Deputy Eric Centa claimed that the Portage County Sheriff’s Office “failed and refused to pay him a significant amount of overtime and continues to refuse to pay him earned overtime.”
Centa wrote that he is being paid for his usual 40-hour work week, but stated that his job routinely involves excess hours. He is asking the court to award him “in excess of” $47,000 in earned overtime pay…