Comp time in lieu of payment is usually not legal.1
Only state or government agencies may give time off in place of wages and only under certain conditions.2
2See, e.g., La. R.S. 33:2213.1 (police officers); Knecht v. Bd. of Trs., 591 So. 2d 690 (La. 1991); Jones v. City Par. of E. Baton Rouge, 526 So. 2d 462 (La. App. 1 Cir. 1988); see also Klein v. Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Med. Ctr., 990 F.2d 279 (7th Cir. 1993).