Daily Archives: March 21, 2019

City Hall, Contracts (Or Lack Thereof) and Sovereign Immunity: No Back Pay for Being On Call

A recent Texas Supreme Court case determined municipal employees are not entitled to wages for being “on call.”  The city employees in Denton, Texas, had no contract that enabled such pay and there was no provision for it in the employee policies, but the city manager altered the employee policies and included pay for… Read More »