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Georgetown to pay up to $550,000 to settle unpaid overtime allegations

The D.C. attorney general announced the settlement in a deal reached with the Jesuit university

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June 20, 2023 at 2:59 p.m. EDT
Georgetown University in Washington will pay up to $550,000 in a settlement over unpaid overtime allegations from the D.C. government. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post)
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Georgetown University will pay up to $550,000 to resolve allegations from the D.C. government that certain hourly employees at the Jesuit institution worked unpaid overtime, according to a settlement announced Tuesday.

The D.C. attorney general’s office said the deal was reached after it investigated Georgetown’s overtime practices in response to a tip last year from a whistleblower. The office alleged that some employees in the university’s medical center and graduate school of arts and sciences were required to work “off the clock,” without compensation, in violation of D.C. law from March 2020 until this year.