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Sort by date 1,240 pages found matching overtime- Major League Baseball Fights Back in California Courtroom
Mar-23-17 Oakland, CA: A California labor law class action involving minor league players with Major League Baseball (MLB) but housed in the Golden state remains at play with an appeal launched by MLB challenging a recent ruling by a California judge granting preliminary approval to the class. The California labor lawsuit was filed in 2014 at US District Cour... - Maryland Employment Lawsuits Revived on Appeal
Mar-17-17 Greenbelt, MD: A Maryland labor and employment lawsuit against DirecTV LLC (DirecTV) and DirectSat USA, LLC (DirectSat) that was lost for the plaintiffs when a Maryland judge tossed the lawsuit in 2015, has been resurrected on appeal. In January, a three-judge appellate panel determined that plaintiffs indeed had a case and the matter can move forward... - Minor League Baseball Players' Overtime Class Action Back in Play
Mar-11-17 San Francisco, CA: A California federal judge on Tuesday revived the class action status of a California overtime lawsuit filed by minor league baseball players against Major League Baseball. The lawsuit Aaron Senne et al v. Kansas City Royals Baseball Corp., Case No. 14-cv-00608, US District Court, Northern District of California , filed in Feb... - Wells Fargo Urges Judge to Refuse to Certify Hundreds of Employees in Class Action
Mar-6-17 Los Angeles, CA: Wells Fargo on Monday urged a California federal judge to refuse to certify a class of more than 600 home consultants who claim in a California Labor lawsuit that the bank failed to pay them for missed meal breaks. In the class action Nicole Torres et al. v. Wells Fargo Bank NA, Case No. 5:15-cv-02225, US District Court for the C... - Counsel for US Airways Asks Judge to Reject Overtime Claims by Certified Class
Feb-6-17 San Francisco, CA: Attorneys for US Airways in a California labor class action lawsuit filed in 2012 asked a federal judge in a hearing last month to reject California overtime claims brought by a certified class of US Airways fleet service agents, claiming that the unionized workers' collective bargaining agreement (CBA) and the Railroad Labor Act (RL... - A Victory for Pennsylvania Donning & Doffing Lawsuit Plaintiffs
Feb-4-17 Towanda, PA: A rather complex Pennsylvania Donning and Doffing lawsuit ended the year in 2016 with a partial victory for three Pennsylvania plaintiffs who took issue with their employer for attempting to offset off-the-clock work with payments for lunch breaks. The defendants in the putative class action are EI DuPont de Nemours & Co. (DuPont) a... - UPS Hit with Federal and California Labor Lawsuit
Dec-13-21 Oakland, CA On November 9, Galena Goins, Sonia Lopez, and Terry A. Jones-Jackson filed a nationwide class action and collective lawsuit in the District Court for the Northern District of California alleging that their employer, United Parcel Service, systematically discriminated against them and women similarly situated on the basis of gender, age a... - San Francisco Transit Board Okays Overtime Settlement
Jan-13-17 San Francisco, CA: San Francisco's Municipal Transportation Agency Board of Directors has voted to approve to settle an overtime lawsuit with Muni operators for $8 million. The lawsuit had originally sought almost $400 million and alleged operators were not properly paid for time spent traveling between their clock-in sites and the sites they picked up... - Call Center Workers File FLSA Lawsuit over Unpaid Wages
Nov-24-21 Chicago, IL On October 19, Maria Guadalupe Amador filed a Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) collective action lawsuit against Kemper Corp., alleging that the insurance giant cheated her and other call center workers out of wages due under federal and Illinois law. Recent lawsuit news coverage has often focused on whether very small (de minimus) amounts of... - A Potpourri of New York Unpaid Wages Lawsuits
Dec-12-16 New York, NY: A nationwide Chipotle class action is also a New York Donning and Doffing lawsuit given that Chipotle has a healthy presence in New York State, and thousands of potential class participants alleged they worked off the clock on a routine basis. The end result, according to allegations asserted in the class action, is wage theft. The law... - Donning and Doffing: Does Every Minute Count?
Sep-20-16 San Diego, CA: Although a number of California overtime lawsuits regarding “donning and doffing” have found that time off-the-clock should be compensated, the rules aren’t exactly clear. But it is generally accepted that less than 10 minutes off-the-clock doesn’t count, or does it? The Supreme Court has agreed to review a case a... - Massive Walmart California Labor Law Class Action Lawsuit Certified
San Francisco, CA: An wage and hour class action lawsuit filed against Walmart by workers who allege they were underpaid when they missed lunch breaks and were not provided with proper information on their pay stubs, has received certification. In fact, three classes of plaintiffs in the employment lawsuit have been certified. The three classes ra... - $13M Wells Fargo Unpaid Breaks and Wages Class Action Lawsuit Settlement Reached
Los Angeles, CA: A $13 million settlement has been reached between Wells Fargo and around 44,000 employees in California who filed an unpaid wages class action lawsuit. Specifically, the lawsuit alleges the bank failed to pay for hours worked off-the-clock, including both overtime and straight-time pay, and failed to provide meal and rest breaks. If... - Proposition 22 Ruled Unconstitutional by California Judge
Sep-30-21 Alameda County, CA Sections of Proposition 22—which went into effect last November-- are in violation of California’s constitution and therefore unenforceable, ruled an Alameda County Superior Court Judge. The ruling has gig economy investors worried and California labor advocates jubilant. The ballot measure hasn’t practi... - Startup Defending California Labor Lawsuit Alleging Misclassification
Jul-25-16 Los Angeles, CA: We all know about Uber, and Lyft and how ride sharing works with the use of a mobile application, or ‘app.’ Well, now the app world has come to the house cleaning industry. We know this because of a California labor lawsuit alleging that house cleaners working for a startup should be afforded the normal rights and protectio... - GrubHub Faces California Labor Lawsuit
Jul-5-16 San Francisco, CA: The battle over independent contractors in the sharing economy continues to grow, as an increasing number of companies face California labor lawsuits alleging they misclassify employees as independent contractors to avoid offering benefits and protections typically given to employees. Among the companies that have or are currently fa... - $5.4M Settlement Reached in California Labor Law Class Action
San Francisco, CA: A $5.6 million settlement deal has been granted preliminary approval potentially ending a California labor law class action lawsuit alleging the staffing company Staffmark, failed to compensate its logistics workers for meal periods and overtime and failed to pay minimum wages. The lawsuit was filed by worker Earl Fronda against... - Modern-Day Slavery Doesn’t Pay
Jun-27-16 Sacramento, CA: Employers take note: It doesn’t pay to violate California labor laws and workers. That also applies to overseas Filipino workers and foreign contract laborers. The former owners of L’Amande bakeries have been handed a default judgment of $15.2 million in damages and fees for trafficking 11 Filipinos to the United States t... - Uber California Labor Lawsuit Could Still Go On
Jun-13-16 Sacramento, CA: A California labor lawsuit filed by drivers for Uber - a ride-sharing service - could continue on, even though a $100 million settlement has been proposed to end the labor lawsuit. Drivers who filed the lawsuit are reportedly not pleased that one of the main issues in the California labor claim - that of them being employees and not ind... - California Bakery Ordered to Pay $15 Million for Worker Abuses
May-31-16 Beverly Hills, CA: The owners of a French bakery in California have been ordered to pay more than $15 million to settle allegations of abuse of workers, including failure to pay overtime , human trafficking and retaliation. L’Amande French Bakery, with locations in Beverly Hills and Torrance before it closed, was accused of trafficking workers fro...