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Nov-26-08 Santa Monica, CA: Kimberly worked in the corporate office of a fashion company until about a month ago." When I was hired, I was told that there would be occasional overtime," says Kimberly. "I was fine with that if I got overtime pay but I didn't even get a lunch break." Kimberly is familiar with overtime laws . "Did you see the movie, The Devil Wears... - $2.1M Unpaid Overtime Class Action Settlement Approved
Santa Clara, CA: A $2.1 million settlement of an unpaid overtime class action lawsuit has received final court approval, ending allegations brought against a health care facility staffing agency by some 900 of its workers. According to the suit, the staffing agency, Workfit, illegally denied its workers overtime when they worked more than 40 hours... - Employers can be Liable for California Wage-Hour Violations
Dec-10-18 Sacramento, CA: Can an individual be held liable for alleged California wage law violations? Yes, according to the California Court of Appeal, which holds that they can be held personally liable for civil penalties, regardless of whether they were the employer or if the employer is a limited liability entity. Further, the Court concluded that private... - Overtime Claim Worth Pursuing
Oct-26-08 Williamville, KT Larry was involved in an overtime class action lawsuit (Price, et al. v. Acosta) that started back in 2004—in 2005 he was one of several hundred people who chose to opt in. However, the original four plaintiffs settled and the opt-in plaintiffs were dismissed without prejudice this past August. But it ain't over yet! "The attorney f... - Judge Gives Green Light to Pepsi and Kronos Settlement
Dec-21-22 New York, NY A New York federal judge in early December has granted preliminary approval of a $12.75 million settlement. The PepsiCo class action lawsuit alleges that Pepsi workers were not paid overtime and wages weren't timely or fully compensated for all hours worked during an outage with their Kronos timekeeping system. Along with Pepsi, the work... - Six Months and Counting for Overtime Pay
Jul-23-08 Brunswick, GA Allison was a general manager in the hospitality industry when new ownership eliminated her job. Six months later she is still fighting to receive $13,000 in overtime pay her contract guaranteed. "There was a corporate takeover on January 31, 2008," says Allison, "and the VP of Fallbrook Hospitality was removed from his position. The maj... - Overtime: between a rock and a hard place
Feb-24-08 Houston, TX "There are a lot of things going on with Walgreens that aren't right, especially overtime issues," says pharmacist Donna S. (not her real name for fear of retaliation). She has worked at the huge pharmacy chain for 20 years and estimates she is owed close to $250,000 in overtime pay! "When I was hired I was told I would work 40 hours a wee... - California Overtime Abuse
Dec-7-07 San Diego, CA "I was hired as a clerk for Mercury Books - a chain of adult bookstores—in July, 2002," says Benjamin Ziff. "About 18 months later, I was promoted to a day shift position with basic managerial duties. Of course, they don't call anyone managers in this position, but I was placed on salary anyway—classified as exempt. I never had a... - California Labor Law: Know Your Rights
Oct-15-07 Yerington, Nevada: Ron Green has researched the California labor law and has a few issues with his former employer. The amount of money owed him in overtime isn't the main point, Ron explains. "It's the way this company treats its employees and that is why I want to pursue this [ lawsuit ]," he says. For the past four years, Ron (not his real name) a... - California State Labor Commissioner Slams Restaurants with Wage Theft Violations
Jun-13-18 San Francisco, CA: Despite California restaurants in the past few years receiving huge fines for California labor law violations, some employers seem to have missed the memo, or perhaps they think employees on salary aren’t entitled to overtime compensation. Or perhaps they think restaurant workers, from dishwashers to cooks to General Managers, are af... - Unpaid Overtime Extends to Employees on Electronic Access After Hours
Santa Clara, CA: Employees who are required to use their cell phones after regular work hours to stay in touch with their job, including checking emails, text messages, voicemails, and other electronic transmissions, may be entitled to unpaid overtime compensation under federal wage and hours laws. According to the Fair Labor Standards Act (... - Overtime after 12 Hours Spells Double Time
Jun-5-07 Oakland, CA Not long after Vince H. started working for a cement-mixing company, he was "asked" to sign a letter waiving lunch. "We get paid regular time for working through our first lunch and that's fine with me, but they should pay double time for second lunch—after 12 hours," he says. That's a lot of money owed to more than 500 cement truck drive... - Overtime Back Pay Cases Sweep the U.S.
May-31-07 Los Angeles, CA The LA Times reported May 30, 2007 that a handful of workers -- deported following an immigration sweep across California and 16 other states earlier this year -- are back in the country illegally and, in an interesting twist, are now claiming back wages in unpaid overtime they say their former employer owes them. A New York state co... - Computer Programmer Overtime: All in a Day's Pay
May-4-07 Farifax, VA "A normal work week for us programmers was around 60 to 70 hours," says Dan Graves. "This company gave us all supervisor titles so they wouldn't have to pay overtime - but the only supervising we did was on ourselves." "I worked many overtime hours and never got paid - I was a worker, not a supervisor," says Graves. "These companies try to... - $3.8M Preliminary Settlement Reached in PetSmart Employment Lawsuit
Dover DW: A preliminary $3.8 million settlement has been agreed in an employment class action pending against PetSmart Inc. The lawsuit was brought by operations managers for the chain of pet supply stores who allege they were misclassified so as to make them exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) overtime requirements. Under the... - Overtime: Quit or Keep Quiet
Jul-19-06 "I worked at a medical practice in San Bruno, CA for almost seven years and was paid hourly. Some of us worked a lot of overtime, sometimes more than 50 hours per week, but I was never paid overtime," says Frances of Stockton, California. "One employee was terminated so the doctors could avoid paying her overtime and they told the rest of us that if we did... - California Overtime Choice: get fired or shut up
Jun-6-06 "My manager said he didn't pay overtime to salaried employees. But this is the kicker: If I was salary, why did I have to fill out a time card? "We had to lie on our time cards to keep our jobs," says Jennifer Luna of Stockton, CA. Luna worked at Premiere Home Loans as a loan processor and was later promoted to loans officer. She worked there for almost t... - California Overtime benefits Employers
Mar-20-06 Terri Reese from Vista, California was classified as an exempt manager. Her contract stated that she wouldn't perform the duties of hourly employees except in an emergency. As it turned out, every day was an emergency. She was hired to manage the mess hall for the Marine Corps base at Camp Pendleton. Because Reese wasn't paid hourly, she wasn't paid overt... - California Unpaid Overtime Class Action Down, but Not Out
Oct-29-17 Los Angeles, CA: A California unpaid overtime lawsuit seeking class certification got “some good news for everybody, and some bad news for everybody,” when Superior Court Judge Ann I. Jones denied a petition to certify eight subclasses or workers at a well-known theme park, but left the door open to other subclasses with regard to various p... - Paramount Not Properly Paying Workers, Alleges California Labor Lawsuit
Jun-3-24 Los Angeles, CA A class action lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court in California claims that Paramount Pictures Corp and its president Brian Levine failed to pay its movie crew members their wages on time, among other California labor law violations. Plaintiff Timothy O’Cain alleges that Paramount failed to properly pay crew membe...