CBP Reports on Agents' Uncontrollable OT Comments by Aguilar
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a February 21, 2012 press release on DHS Secretary Napolitano and Acting CBP Commissioner Aguilar's visit to the recently established CBP Joint Field Command operations in Tucson, Arizona (JFC-AZ). They reviewed the JFC-AZ…
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and commended its efforts on securing the Arizona border. In fielding a question on uncontrollable overtime (AOU) and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Aguilar assured the agents that they would not be affected financially, stating that they "will be compensated for every hour [they] work," and that CBP/DHS are "working out a system that will ensure [they] are not adversely affected, it's just that it may not be called AOU."