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Missouri has been hit with a lawsuit by the union representing prison workers. Jesse Russell reports:

The Missouri Corrections Officers Association filed a lawsuit on Tuesday alleging the Corrections Department deceptively made workers take compensatory time off to avoid paying overtime. According to the union corrections workers were forced to take time off with less than four days notice so workers wouldn’t go over 40 hours in a week. The department would schedule officers to work long shifts followed by abruptly cutting hours later in the week. This isn’t the first time the state has been hit with a suit over questionable pay practices. Parole workers won a suit in 2005 when they charged the state with failing to provide raises.