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Sort by date 1,262 pages found matching overtime- California Seeks $6.3 Million for Overtime Pay Law Violations
Sep-28-17 Los Angeles, CA: The California Labor Commissioners Office has filed a lawsuit against Calcrete Construction. Inc. seeking $6,300,338 for unpaid overtime and sick leave as well as the company’s failure to provide proper wage statements. The complaint alleges that Calcrete forced workers to sign contracts stating they were independen... - Farmworkers Another Step Toward California Overtime
Aug-25-17 Menlo Park, CA: Farmworkers employed by Apio Inc. fought for their rights and won last week, when a California overtime class-action lawsuit settled for almost $6 million. The lawsuit claimed that Apio, a Guadalupe packaging company, and Pacific Harvest, its labor contractor, failed to provide appropriate rest and meal times to workers, while also fa... - CA Supreme Court Considers whether Prop 22 is Constitutional
May-29-24 San Francisco, CA Prop 22 classifies Uber, Lyft and other app-based drivers as independent contractors instead of employees. Now, after numerous appeals, the California Supreme Court is considering whether the bill is constitutional and over 1 million people in California could be impacted by this California labor decision. Most Californians recall th... - Strawberry Harvester Settles Agricultural Workers Claims for $1M
May-27-24 Santa Maria, CA New Hope Harvesting LLC, has agreed in California federal court to a $1 million deal that will settle claims brought by about 900 migrant workers. The agricultural workers claimed the strawberry harvester denied their full wages, denied them proper rest and meal breaks, and charged or failed to reimburse them for certain expenses. The Cali... - Equinox Employees Go Ahead with Three Class Actions
Jun-13-22 Los Angeles, CA Over 9,000 Equinox employees, including personal trainers and group fitness instructors, have been given the green light by a California federal judge to have their wage claims and other California labor laws resolved by three class actions rather than individually. California federal judge William H. Orrick certified three class actio... - Family Dollar Reaches Preliminary $14M Unpaid Overtime Class Action Settlement
Mathews, NC: A preliminary settlement has been reached in the unpaid overtime class action pending against the retailer Family Dollar. The lawsuit is brought by over 1,700 New York store managers who allege they are owed overtime wages. The settlement has yet to be finalized and approved in court, but the existing agreement involves the discount r... - Affiliated Computer Services Reaches $4.5M Employment Class Action Settlement
Portland, OR: Workers employed at an Oregon call center by Affiliated Computer Services Inc, have won a $4.5 million settlement in a wage and hour class action lawsuit. The lawsuit alleged the employees were not properly paid all minimum and overtime wages for all the hours they worked. Filed in 2009, the lawsuit, entitled Bell, et al. v. Affi... - Comcast Contractor Faces Overtime Class Action
Jackson, MI: An unpaid overtime class action lawsuit has been filed against Poole's Cable Services, Inc., which is a independent contractor for Comcast. The complaint that was filed on January 20, 2012, alleges that cable technicians were not paid overtime wages when they worked over forty (40) hours a week. In addition, the complaint alleges... - Hotel Housekeepers Denied California Overtime File Lawsuit
Mar-6-17 Oakland, CA: For some California housekeepers who celebrated last September the bill that granted permanent California overtime protection for domestic workers, the law doesn’t apply to them – but it should. An East Oakland hotel owner, for instance, refused to pay overtime to six housekeepers: consequently employees, a legal advocacy firm... - After a Decade of Litigation, FedEx Drivers Settle for $15.45 Million
Jan-26-17 Portland, OR: An ongoing dispute on the books for some ten years was resolved late last year in federal court in Oregon by way of a $15.45 Million settlement laying to rest claims by defendant FedEx their drivers were working as independent contractors when, in the view of the plaintiffs, they were bone fide employees of the company. The class action Ore... - Sutherland Settles Unpaid Overtime Lawsuit for $4M
Rochester, NY: A $4 million settlement has been reached in an unpaid overtime class action against Sutherland Global Servies Ltd. The suit, brought by call center telemarketers in 2005, alleged that Sutherland didn't pay its call center employees the overtime owed. The lawsuit was originally brought by two Rochester employees of the Perinto... - Employment Class Action Against AutoZone Reaches Tentative Settlement
San Francisco, CA: A settlement has been reached in a California employment law class action lawsuit against AutoZone, Inc. ("AutoZone"or "Defendant") pending in Orange County Superior Court. The suit alleges, among other things, that the Class of plaintiffs who worked for AutoZone were not properly paid all regular and overtime wages owed to them, wer... - Court: Donning and Doffing Not Offset by Paid Break Time
Nov-30-16 Sacramento, CA: A recent ruling in Pennsylvania could have implications for California donning and doffing lawsuits although how far-reaching the implications are remains to be seen. The Pennsylvania donning and doffing lawsuit involved claims that employers should not be able to offset overtime by paying employees for break time. The Pennsylvania Thir... - Schering Plough Pharmaceutical Reps Win in Overtime Class Action
New York, NY: Schering Plough pharmaceutical representatives have won a complete victory in Federal Court in a Nationwide Collective Law Suit. The suit charged that plaintiffs often worked in excess of 40 hours a week but received an annual salary without overtime pay at the mandatory rate of time and one half. The amount to be distributed to th... - Is Donning and Doffing About to Change in Health Care?
Nov-5-16 Los Angeles, CA: The relationship between overtime pay laws and donning and doffing (in other words, getting into and climbing out of uniforms or protective gear depending upon the job at hand), has always been a contentious one, landing many a plaintiff into a California court arguing that if an employer requires special equipment necessary for the jo... - California Overtime Lawsuit against Nike Certified as a Class Action
Sep-11-16 San Francisco, CA: An overtime play laws complaint against Nike Retail Service Inc. (Nike) has been certified as a class action in California after a federal judge, on August 19, gave her blessing. The crux of the lawsuit is time waiting for security checks upon the completion of a shift, time for which the employee is not paid, or so it is alleged. ... - Fast Food Workers Granted Class Action Status
Aug-15-16 Sacramento, CA: A California labor lawsuit that claimed McDonald's is responsible for how its franchisees manage their pay has been given the go-ahead to proceed as a class action lawsuit. Workers at five McDonald's restaurants in California filed the lawsuit, alleging the franchise owner - who owned all five restaurants - violated wage and hour laws,... - Flowers Foods Leaves Bad Taste for Distributor Drivers
Dec-30-21 Santa Clara, CA A California federal judge ruled that Flowers Foods Inc. misclassified its distributor drivers as independent contractors and drivers can go ahead with overtime claims against the second-largest commercial bakery in the US (whose brands include Wonder Bread, Tastykake, Sunbeam, and Nature’s Own). It has a track record of misclassifi... - Personal Care Workers: Are Your Employers in Compliance?
Mar-28-16 Los Angeles, CA: Much focus has been placed, over the past several months, on the minimum pay raise to $10 per hour that came into effect the first of the year, together with the equal pay regulations that also took effect this past January 1. However, lost in the introduction of these latest updates to California labor law is a statute that came into... - California Plaintiff Alleges Violations of Overtime, Meal Breaks
Feb-29-16 Los Angeles, CA: The new year brought a resolution to right a wrong for one California plaintiff, who last month filed a California Labor Lawsuit alleging nonpayment of owed overtime pay, together with the lack of provision and allowance for uninterrupted meal breaks as required under California labor law and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The...