Question: Pursuant to the FLSA exception, which allows public employers to give their hourly workers compensatory time in lieu of overtime pay, a town provided its police officers with compensatory time credits in place of overtime premiums. However, when police officers tried to "cash in" their compensatory entitlements, the chief of police-following the instructions of the town council-approved such requests only when a police officer's absence on "comp time" did not require the town to pay a replacement officer overtime/comp time. Should the town be permitted to restrict the police officers' enjoyment of their comp time entitlements in this fashion? See Canney v. Town of Brookline [2000 WL 1612703 (D. Mass.)].