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Sort by date 1,262 pages found matching overtime- California Labor Lawyer Answers Overtime Question
May-1-08 LawyersandSettlements recently interviewed John L., a hospital technician who works 80 hours every two weeks, but often six days in a row. John wants to know if he is entitled to overtime on the sixth day. California overtime lawyer Jose Garay responds. "This seemingly complex problem may actually be very simple to answer with more information," says... - Former Police Officer Files Lawsuit over Overtime Pay
Mar-26-08 Forks, WA: A lawsuit has been filed against the city of Forks by a former police officer alleging that he was not paid for overtime that he worked. The amount of overtime pay that he is seeking is unspecified. From September 1998 until June 2007, police officer Jim Dixon worked for the Forks Police Department as a K-9 officer handler, according to the... - California Overtime: "Why are they getting away with this?"
Feb-22-08 Santa Ana, CA "Can you imagine being in a huge building, and they lock the doors and they have this woman who's been given enormous power over you saying over the loudspeaker that if you laugh you will not go home, and you're sweating because they've turned off the air conditioning and it's so hot in there?" asks Cathy Merino. Worse yet, neither she nor an... - Baptist Memorial Hospital Workers File Class Action Suit for Unpaid Overtime
Jan-18-08 Memphis, TN: The list of plaintiffs is growing in a federal class action lawsuit against Baptist Memorial Hospital of Memphis, charging a deliberate policy of unpaid overtime for "off the clock" work. Baptist Memorial Hospital is part of Baptist Memorial Health Care, one of the nation's largest nonprofit health care operations, with 15 hospitals, 12,00... - Interview with Labor Lawyer Jose Garay, Part 2
Sep-25-07 Irvine, CA In the second part of our interview, lawyer Jose Garay answers some of the most commonly asked questions by employees regarding California labor law . LawyersandSettlements (LAS): What is your area of expertise? Jose Garay (JG): My area of expertise started in labor law representing employees for a wide variety of reasons, from discrimina... - Million-dollar settlement in Unpaid IT Overtime Lawsuit
Aug-9-07 Denver, CO Ball Aerospace and Technologies Inc., a Broomfield, CO-based aerospace defense contractor, reached agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor last month to pay $976,327 in back pay it owes to 904 employees for IT overtime wages and other benefits. The company had wrongly classified many workers, including computer and information technolog... - California Labor Laws: Getting Burnt in the California Sun
Aug-8-07 Oakland, CA Your Auntie Anne would not be pleased that the chain of pretzel stores bearing her name have been found to be in violation of California Labor Laws . Of course, your own Auntie Anne may have nothing to do with the Auntie Anne pretzel stores dotted throughout Southern California. But her hackles would surely be raised at the thought of 14 a... - California Overtime Abuse Rampant in Retail
Jul-21-07 Paris, CA Time and again there's another company not paying time-and-a half for overtime hours worked. Nancy Munoz worked almost a year in retail until she couldn't take any more 60-hour work weeks. "I started with this retail company last October," says Munoz. "I was hired as a senior assistant manager and it was to be a salaried position, 40-42 hour... - Courts Increasingly Involved in Upholding California Labor Laws
Jun-27-07 San Francisco, CA As more and more violations of California labor law are discovered, employees are increasingly calling on the courts to uphold the state's laws and worker's rights. Several lawsuits were recently settled that reinforced the duties of employers to their employees. In one lawsuit, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francis... - Unpaid Overtime Claims of San Diego Police Pass Court Hurdle
May-24-07 San Diego, CA The City of San Diego tried to get the courts to throw out their police officers' million dollar overtime pay claim before trial, but last week the Court gave the city the thumbs down. The police officers' case, Abbe, et al v. the City of San Diego began in September, 2005, and has been wending its way through the U.S. District Court... - $7.7M Settlement Approved in Verizon Unpaid Overtime Class Action Lawsuit
Los Angeles, CA: Verizon Communications has been ordered to pay $7.7 million to settle an unpaid overtime class action lawsuit brought by its retail employees. The wage and hour class action alleged the wireless carrier was in violation the Fair Labor Standards Act and state wage laws, because it refused to its workers overtime and bonuses. ... - Hershey Reaches Preliminary Settlement in California Overtime and Unpaid Wages Class Action Lawsuit
Los Angeles, CA: A preliminary $500,000 settlement has been reached in a California California unpaid overtime and wage and hour class action lawsuit pending against Hershey. The lawsuit alleges that the class members are owed wages including unpaid overtime and minimum wage pursuant to several sections of the California labor law and are... - Tyson to Pay $5M in Unpaid Wages and Overtime Class Action Lawsuit
Dakota City, NB: Tyson Foods has been ordered to pay nearly $5 million as settlement in an unpaid wages and overtime class action lawsuit. The lawsuit dealt specifically with allegations that employees were not compensated for the time it took them to put on and take off clothing necessary for their work at a beef processing plant, violating the Fai... - Status as Employee v. Independent Contractor Impacts Wage and Hour Claims
Feb-26-18 Los Angeles, CA: A California unpaid wages lawsuit filed last fall is still pending, while a ruling by a US District Court Judge in a separate case over whether, or not a driver with GrubHub is an employee, or an independent contractor may be deemed moot by a pending decision by the California high court. Such are the complexities in an ever-changin... - CVS Pharmacy Faces California Labor Lawsuit
Jun-26-24 Los Angeles, CA A class action lawsuit filed under the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) in Los Angeles County Superior Court by a former employee claims CVS Pharmacy violated California labor laws , including failure to pay overtime, altering time keeping records and more. Plaintiff Suzanne Shotorbani claims the nation’s largest pharmacy reta... - Cashing in on Overtime
Sep-12-06 Santa Clara, CA: Daniel Kuenzi worked a double shift but his employer refuses to pay overtime . The employer's rationale: the 16 hour shift was over a period of two days. "I worked the midnight shift." says Kuenzi, "I started my shift at 4pm in the afternoon and finished the next morning at 8am. The California labor law states that anything over eig... - Kentucky Employment Lawsuit
Kentucky employees who find themselves being treated unfairly may be eligible to file a Kentucky employment lawsuit against their employers. Among issues that may be the focus of a Kentucky employee lawsuit are failure to pay minimum wage or overtime, discrimination or wrongful termination. Kentucky Wage and Hour Laws Kentucky min... - Not Exempt from Overtime
Jul-13-06 "We negotiated a settlement for my unpaid overtime but I turned down their final offer - the college wanted me to resign. It's not my fault that I was misclassified as exempt. Why should I resign? This third offer wasn't even enough to cover the overtime they owed me. "I'm going to fight to the end, all the way to trial if need be," says Susan James (not... - California Overtime Dreaming
May-3-06 Peter Hodge, Modesto, CA "I was fired because I started telling the other employees that the company's excuses not to pay us overtime were garbage, and I proved it through California statutues. The reason they gave me: "We no longer require your services." That was all they wrote. "I worked for Ontel Security Inc. and I was a corporal, which translates... - Pacific Western Bank Shorted Workers OT Pay Lawsuit Alleges
Nov-16-17 San Diego, CA: A class action lawsuit filed in the Superior Court of California alleges Pacific Western Bank failed to correctly calculate overtime wages of the non-exempt hourly workers and failed to provide staff with mandatory meal and rest breaks. The lawsuit was filed by two former employees, Karina Escobedo and Liliam Lopez, on behalf of them...