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Sort by date 1,262 pages found matching overtime- How Will Passage of Save America’s Pastime Act Impact California Lawsuit?
Mar-27-18 San Francisco, CA: A California unpaid wages lawsuit, that traces its origins to the Golden State in 2014 and held national implications after it was granted class action status appears all but dead after the US Congress included a statute in its omnibus spending bill signed into law last week. That statute, known as the ‘Save America’s Pas... - California Labor Law - Immigrants Taken Advantage Of
Feb-5-07 San Diego, CA Diana Meera had a difficult pregnancy, particularly the night she almost gave birth in the large retail store where she works. Diana wasn't allowed any time off, until her baby was born prematurely at 7.5 months. She took her three months maternity leave but was also due vacation pay. "I was going to lose my job if I took any more time of... - Late for Lunch Spells California Labor Lawsuits and a Shifting Work Environment
Feb-6-18 Los Angeles, CA: Over the last few years, a great percentage of California labor lawsuits have focused on meal and rest breaks . For instance, overtime lawsuits have added causes of action for meal and rest break penalties. Recent Meal and Rest Period Lawsuits According to Class Action Reporter, a number of California labor law lawsuits seeking... - O’Reilly Auto Settlement Over California Wage Lawsuit
Jun-24-24 San Diego, CA O’Reilly Auto Enterprises LLC‘s workers have preliminary approval of a proposed $4.1 million to settle four consolidated cases alleging California labor law violations. The main lawsuit, filed in June 2021, said the retailer should have paid workers at its 28 U.S. distribution centers for time they spent each day in COVID-19 scr... - Home Depot on Bottom Rung of the Human Relations Ladder
Apr-6-06 Jane Govenor gave Home Depot 15 years of her life: long, honest and loyal hours. As assistant manager, she averaged 70 hours per week. "I think it's sad because Home Depot used to be a great company. Someone thanked me at one time, but I would have preferred a bonus," she says. (Last year, Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli received $27 million-plus, including seve... - California Overtime: An Issue for Many Employees
Mar-13-06 "It got to the point where we were all working seven days in a row, sometimes 12 hours straight; I wanted to take my family out one weekend, but they said I couldn't have the time off. And all the incentive we got was pizza on Saturday and Sunday." John Winter (not his real name) from Oceanside, California, used to work for a privately owned electronics... - Premera Blue Cross Reaches $1.45M Settlement in Overtime Class Action
Seattle, WA: Preliminary approval has been granted for a $1.45 million settlement in a class action against Premera Blue Cross. The suit alleged that the company failed to pay overtime to tech workers. The class-action lawsuit was filed in 2010 and alleged that the Mountlake Terrace-based health insurance company and its subsidiaries had misclass... - Employers' neglect of the law goes far beyond overtime, includes abuse, study finds
Jan-24-06 While lawyersandsettlements.com has shed light on the growing number of overtime lawsuits in [ California ], workers are exposed to many other kinds of abuse as well. A new [ study ] by McMaster's University, (one of the top 100 schools in the world), shows that almost half of American workers face violence, threats, intimidation, mental abuse and harras... - Dick's Sporting Goods Reaches $15M Settlement in Wages and Overtime Class Actions
New York, NY: Dick's Sporting Goods the largest publicly traded US sporting goods retailer, has agreed to a $15 million settlement that would cover a raft of overtime and wages class action lawsuits. If approved in federal court, the settlement will end unpaid overtime and wages suits in 36 states. Legal Help If you have a similar proble... - Delta Airlines Settles with Flight Attendants for $16M
Jun-7-24 Los Angeles, CA After almost a decade, Delta Airlines has reached an agreement with its flight attendants. The workers told a California federal judge that a nearly $16 million settlement, which will end their California Labor Code and Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) claims, should be approved because that amount will give California-based Delta fli... - $330,000 Settlement Approved for Roberts Hawaii Drivers
Honolulu, HW: A $330,000 settlement has been reached in the wages and overtime class-action brought against Roberts Hawaii by dozens of its tour bus drivers. The lawsuit alleged the company forced the drivers to work long hours without paying the proper overtime.According to the attorney for Roberts Hawaii, 83 drivers will receive payments under the... - $1.3 Million Wages and Hours Class Action Settlement with Madison Square Garden Security Officers
New York, NY: More than 300 employees will receive $1.3 million from Madison Square Garden in a settlement agreement filed today in federal court. The settlement will bring to an end a class action lawsuit brought in federal court in Manhattan in 2009 by four security officers claiming that since 2003 Madison Square Garden willfully failed to pay its secu... - Coca Cola Bottling Company Settles Overtime Class Action
Coca Cola Bottling Company has agreed to settle an overtime class action for $1.1 million. The average net payment to each class member would be about $4,300. In June 2008 Tom Munoz and Phillip Eichten filed a class action lawsuit against BCI Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Los Angeles (BCI), claiming unpaid overtime wages, missed meal and rest period wage... - Oman v. Delta Airlines is Done. Virgin America v. Bernstein Looms on the Horizon
May-20-22 Washington, DC On January 10, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Delta Airline’s petition for certiorari, in which it sought review of the question of whether the Constitution’s Article I Commerce Clause and the federal Airline Deregulation Act (ADA) exempted airlines from California labor law’s wage and hour regulations. This left inta... - McDonald’s Overnight Shift and Pay Protocol Tested in Court
Jun-5-17 Los Angeles, CA: The California labor lawsuit in which fast food giant McDonald’s is embroiled is anything but fast, having been litigated since 2013 and showing no signs of a quick settlement. Nonetheless, a bench trial underway late last month to settle various legal issues ahead of what is expected to be a jury trial going forward, is trying t... - Kaiser and Xanitos Settle Hospital Housekeepers' Overtime Class action for $500,000
May-7-17 San Francisco: CA A federal judge has approved a settlement for $500,000 on a California overtime class action filed by housekeeping employees of Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and hospital services company Xanitos. US District Judge William Orrick III called the settlement a "fair and reasonable resolution of a bona fide dispute" in his April 27, 2017... - MLB Farm Team Players to Get Their Day in Court
May-6-22 San Francisco, CA The class and collective wage claims of minor league baseball players in the long running Senne v. Office of the Commissioner of Baseball will finally go to trial on June 1 in the Northern District of California. The only remaining questions for the California players, according to the plaintiffs’ trial plan, involve... - Wal-Mart Agrees Tentative $40 Million Settlement in Wage and Hour Class Action
Wal-Mart has agreed to what is being heralded as the largest settlement of a wages class action in Massachusetts history, a record $40 million. If approved, the settlement will end the class action, filed in 2001. The lawsuit alleges that Wal-Mart workers were denied meal and rest breaks and refused overtime pay, and had their time cards manipulated in... - The Right to Disconnect
May-2-24 San Francisco, CA A California State Assemblymember has introduced a bill which will give an office worker the “right to disconnect” from the boss after working hours. If passed, Bill AB 2751 would be the first law of this nature in the U.S., which is already in effect in several countries across the pond. (New York City didn’t adopt a sim... - Ohio Employment Lawsuit Seeks Class Action Status
Feb-11-17 Wooster, OH: An Ohio Employment lawsuit, proposed as a class action, was filed at the beginning of the year against an employer in the manufacturing industry. Various allegations against federal law and Ohio Labor and Employment Law statutes have been made, within the context of donning and doffing, and going unpaid for tasks mandated by the employer...