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Jim Wells County adopts FLSA 7(k) pay-schedule policy for detention officers; personnel manual updated

Jim Wells County Commissioners Court · November 15, 2025

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Summary

The Commissioners Court voted to adopt a policy clarifying FLSA 29 U.S.C. 207(k) partial overtime-exemption pay for jailers and detention officers, allowing departments to provide overtime either monetarily or as compensatory time; the court also approved a corresponding personnel-manual amendment.

Sheriff Guy Baker asked the court to adopt a policy implementing FLSA 29 U.S.C. 207(k) for detention officers that clarifies overtime can be paid as wages or accrued as compensatory time at department-head discretion. Baker told commissioners that because of minimum staffing requirements and periodic…

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