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May-1-09 Boca Raton, Fl You can bet your double latte that some people are wondering why they took that management job at Starbucks. The high-end java shop has been slapped with yet another overtime lawsuit under the Fair Labor Standards Act—this time it's the managers that are complaining that they were, as attorney Adam Chotiner describes it, "little more t... - "Stingy Employers" Beware of Attorney Edwin Aiwazian
Jan-29-09 Los Angeles, CA: Why start small when you can start big? A young attorney from Los Angeles, who has just opened his own firm, has filed three separate class action suits against three very large companies. The cases all involve allegations of unpaid overtime, unpaid meal breaks or rest breaks and a raft of other violations of the California Labor Code a... - California Labor Law vs. The Underground Economy
Oct-8-08 San Diego, CA California state labor laws provide infinite guidance to employers as to how employees and laborers are to be treated—and workers can look to California labor laws for assurance they will be treated with respect and dignity, and will receive what is their due in the eyes of the law—including California labor law overtime. Howeve... - $2M Settlement Reached In Ritz Carlton Unpaid Overtime Class Action Lawsuit
San Francisco, CA: The Ritz-Carlton Hotel has agreed to pay $2 million in settlement of an overtime class action lawsuit filed by 1,500 current and former employees in California who allege they were not paid overtime wages. The plaintiffs in the employment class action who work or worked at Ritz-Carlton hotels in San Francisco, Half Moon Bay and... - Bruce Meizlish: TruGreen Workers Complain About Chinese Overtime Pay
Aug-26-08 Cinncinnati, OH Some employers in the US, using a slippery section of the Fair Labor Code, have been playing their employees for suckers, according to attorney Bruce Meizlish. A seasoned lawyer, with some 30 years experience representing people in disputes with employers, Meizlish was amazed by what a group of workers from the TruGreen lawn care company to... - California Overtime: The Labor Board is on your side
Jul-18-08 Apadoca, MX: In 1996, Barry realized his dream: with a friend, he opened Dive Connections Inc., which chartered boats for scuba divers near San Diego. Not even in his wildest dreams did Barry think that he would one day have to sue his own company for California overtime violations. "We had a 50/50 partnership for about 10 years but then we came to an... - Unpaid California Overtime 101: It's Soooo Easy…
Jul-2-08 Los Angeles, CA Okay, so you're working away at work, happy as a clam, oblivious to any potential slight-of-hand your employer might be wielding against you in an effort to avoid paying what is your due. In this way, you may be a victim of unpaid California overtime , and not even know it. What's that, you say? 'My boss is being unfair to me?' Surely,... - Wage Theft Investigations at California Restaurants
Oct-8-18 Sacramento, CA: The California Labor Commissioner’s Office has been busy following up on reports of unpaid wages, tips and overtime. Some employees were paid less than $5 an hour and typically worked more than 10 hours a day with no meal or rest breaks, which violates the California labor law . “Long hours with no breaks and sub-minimum wages are cla... - Former Speedway SuperAmerica Employees File Suit
Apr-29-08 Twin Cities, MN Two former hourly employees of the Speedway SuperAmerica stores, one of whom worked at the Twin Cities, Minnesota location, allege that they were not paid overtime for the extra hours that they worked. These allegations also state that the company had knowledge of this unpaid overtime. Now the two employees, Tina Dado and Constantine Tho... - Trunk Club Settles California Unpaid Wages Lawsuit for $1.75 Million
Sep-21-18 Los Angeles, CA The District Court for the Central District of California has approved an agreement under which Trunk Club, Inc., a Nordstrom-owned personal styling service, will pay $1.75 million to settle a class action California unpaid wages lawsuit . The settlement amount will be divided among 3,000 stylists located throughout the country. Un... - Clickwrap Employment Contract Roils California Arbitration Law
Aug-1-24 San Francisco, CA – On July 23, the California Court of Appeal heard oral arguments in Inostroza. v. Amazon , a California labor employment lawsuit . The workers’ challenge threatens to upend California law at the weird intersection of clickwrap contracts, California labor law and arbitration agreements. This tangled tale takes some unpackin... - California Security Guards Win $90M in Overtime Class Action Lawsuit
Los Angeles, CA: Some 15,000 security guards employed by American Commercial Security Services have been awarded a $90 million settlement in their unpaid overtime class action lawsuit against the company. The lawsuit alleged that the guards were required to be "on duty" during rest breaks, violating the Labor Code. The company had a policy and... - Attorney Louis Sokolov on Canadian Wage and Hour Class Actions
Mar-31-08 Toronto, ON Louis Sokolov is a partner in Sack Goldblatt Mitchell LLP (SGM) of Toronto, one of Canada's leading labor law, civil litigation, and criminal law firms. A graduate of the University of Toronto and the Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, he is currently involved in major class actions against the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIB... - Back Pay Hearing is Delayed
Mar-18-08 Lafayette, LA: Police officers, city marshals, and firefighters for Lafayette filed a lawsuit against the city for back pay owed in the form of unpaid wages . However, the hearing for the ongoing lawsuit has been postponed since there are questions regarding the amount in which the employees are owed. This has come after months of multiple settlement offe... - LA Newspaper Violates Labor Laws
Mar-1-08 Los Angeles, CA On Friday, one of Los Angeles' largest Chinese-language newspapers was ordered to pay 200 employees millions of dollars because they were denied overtime pay for years . In addition to the compensation ordered to the employees by a federal judge, the company is also subject to various labor law violations in California. The Chinese Da... - Janitors Suing Target for Unpaid Overtime
Feb-20-08 San Antonio, TX Approximately 29 janitors who used to clean Target stores in the San Antonio area will be presenting their case to a mediator in order to resolve their lawsuit over wages that the employees claim were unpaid. The employees state that a number of duties were performed in excess of 40 hours a week and that they were not for work over 40 hours... - Hilton LAX Settles Lengthy Unpaid Overtime Lawsuit for $2.5 Million
Los Angeles, CA: The Hilton Los Angeles Airport Hotel has agreed a $2.5 million settlement in the wage and hour class action brought by 1,200 of its hotel workers. The lawsuit alleged that the hotel withheld wages, failed to pay overtime and failed to provide meal and rest breaks. Filed in 2008, the unpaid overtime class action covers all hourly... - Tommy Bahama Faces Wages & Hours Class Action Lawsuit
San Francisco, CA: On May 10, 2012, an employment class action lawsut was filed against Tommy Bahama for allegedly violating California labor laws dealing with wages & hours, including overtime pay by forcing employees to undergo security inspections after shifts as part of a loss prevention program without additional pay for the time it takes to cond... - California overtime: Court ruling signals go-ahead for $16 million claim against Kiewit
Jun-23-07 San Francisco, CA In another case testing Calfornia's overtime labor laws, a federal appeals court has ruled that unionized workers in California who are required by their employers to travel from gathering places to daily work sites must be paid for travel time, unless their contracts expressly say otherwise. The ruling of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Cour... - Hearst Corp Sued for Alleged Labor Law Violations
New York, NY: The Hearst Corporation illegally employs hundreds of unpaid interns in violation of federal and state labor laws, according to a newly filed employment class action complaint. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of a former Harper's Bazaar intern, accuses Hearst of paying interns no compensation for the work they perform, including minimum or ov...