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Mar-13-08 Los Angeles, CA If there is one thing that companies hate, it is the uncontrolled cost. In other words, overtime. However, this should not be the reason why a company reneges on paying IT overtime to qualified workers. Various States, including California, the Mecca of all things IT, have statutes in place that protect workers from being taken advantage... - Asian restaurant pays $110,000 discrimination class action settlement
Saugus, MA: (Mar-11-08) Immigrant workers brought a class action lawsuit against Jin Asian Cuisine Restaurant alleging wage irregularities. The lawsuit, which was initiated by four Latino workers and two Chinese wait-staff, claimed that the restaurant did not pay the Latino workers minimum wage or overtime and administrative fees were taken from the Chi... - Santa Barbara News-Press pays $140,000 settlement in overtime suit.
Santa Barbara, CA: (Mar-08-08) Two former newsroom employees, Hildy Medina and Anna Davison, brought a lawsuit against the Santa Barbara News-Press, alleging that the paper had shortchanged them on overtime pay and on meal and rest periods, thereby violating California law. In addition, they also claimed that if, by the end of the year, an employee hadn'... - Union Vale to pay $237,500 to union forming employee.
Union Vale, NY: (Mar-06-08) Christopher Kemlage, a former highway department employee, brought charges against the town of Union Vale, alleging that highway department officials attempted to stop employees from unionizing the department. The suit further accused the town of racism and threatened violence by department employees, stating that Kemlage's righ... - IT Overtime: "We're treated like Serf Laborers"
Mar-2-08 Dallas, TX Information technology (IT) worker Jamie Wells is classified as exempt and therefore is not entitled to overtime . "I'm paid a salary, which just means that our employer can work us as much as he wants," says Wells. He was working 70-80 hours per week as an operations analyst in an eyeglass firm; IT overtime was never even mentioned, for fear... - 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... - California Labor Law: We were Silicone Valley SlaveGirls
Feb-29-08 Auburn, CA Because Janet Glenn was hired as a salaried manager for the retailer Anne Taylor, she understood that she was exempt from overtime. That was 20 years ago. If she was working in those same conditions today, the company would be violating the California Labor Law . First of all, Glenn was not exempt and therefore entitled to overtime. The la... - Overtime: between a rock and a hard place
Feb-24-08 Houston, TX "There are a lot of things going on with Walgreens that aren't right, especially overtime issues," says pharmacist Donna S. (not her real name for fear of retaliation). She has worked at the huge pharmacy chain for 20 years and estimates she is owed close to $250,000 in overtime pay! "When I was hired I was told I would work 40 hours a wee... - 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... - Credit Card Abuse: Like Your Balance, it Keeps Going On, and on, and...
Feb-21-08 Washington, DC It's hardly surprising that credit card defaults have risen 30 percent, given the challenges consumers face simply navigating the minefield of fees, penalties and other questionable practices amounting to credit card abuse . In a society increasingly moving away from cash, credit card companies have been earning a justified reputation... - One New York City Employer not Taking Time with Paying Overtime
Feb-20-08 New York, NY: There has been widespread controversy throughout America over unpaid overtime . Many employers have dodged the overtime bullet for several years labeling employees as salaried. Companies with salaried employees feel the title of "salaried" is a safe haven to skirt paying overtime. They believe salary indicates a certain amount of pay no matt... - 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... - Honest Pay for an Honest Day's Work in California, including Overtime
Feb-19-08 Vallejo, CA "I have worked an average of 90 hours a week since May 21, 2007, and have been paid for a 40 hour a week schedule and to add insult to injury I was just fired," says executive chef Elbert Williams. Every week Williams received his earnings statement that totaled 86.67 hours for a two-week pay period. But his employer didn't take into account th... - California Overtime: IBM Giveth and IBM Taketh Away
Feb-18-08 Sacramento, CA A lawsuit filed by three IBM sales technicians in July last year charged the company with violations of federal and California state overtime laws . The focus of the workers' complaint was IBM's classification of their jobs and those of other non-managerial workers as exempt from the overtime provisions of the federal Fair Labor Standards A... - Apparel Overtime, Yellow Rat Bastard agrees to $1.4 million wage and hour violations settlement
New York, NY: (Feb-12-08) The New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo brought charges against Yellow Rat Bastard, a trendy apparel retailer based in SoHo, alleging that it had unpaid wages and overtime violations at it facility. Records show that the suit grew out of a lawsuit that Cuomo's predecessor, Eliot Spitzer filed 14 months ago, seeking more than... - Retail Overtime, McLane Co. Inc. agrees to $1.5 million settlement for misclassifying employees as exempt
Temple, TX: (Feb-07-08) The US Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division brought a lawsuit against McLane Co. Inc., headquartered in Temple, Texas, alleging that the wholesale distributor of food and grocery products violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The suit claimed that the company had misclassified employees and did not pay overtime wages... - California Drywaller Sued for Denying Breaks and Overtime Pay
Feb-6-08 Los Angeles, CA: Edmund G. Brown, the California Attorney General is suing one of the largest drywall contractors in Los Angeles, Interwell Development Systems, for "cheating" hundreds of their employees out of approximately $5 million in benefits and wages. Interwall employed what Brown calls, "a sophisticated and heartless scheme" that involved severa... - Double Whammy: Overtime without Pay leads to Termination
Feb-5-08 Oakland, CA Henry Adams worked as a program manager in the IT department at Kaiser Permanente. "When I was hired by Kaiser three years ago, I was told that my salary was to be based on a 40-hour week," says Adams. But just one year later, he was often working an average of 16 hours a day, until he got his walking papers. Adams didn't get any overtime pay... - Racial Discrimination and Harassment at US Mail
Jan-29-08 Burbank, CA: Chris was looking forward to a rewarding career as a postal worker when he began six years ago in Burbank, but a transfer has turned the past two years into a battle against discrimination. After buying a house in the high desert he transferred to a postal outlet in Hesperia. All went well at first until the person who hired him was fired an... - Firefighter Back Pay, City of San Francisco pays $755,000 settlement to several retired workers
San Francisco, CA: (Jan-21-08) Dennis Kruger and Francis Kelle, veterans with the fire department and Firefighters Local 798, brought charges against the city, alleging that when they retired, they were denied full compensation for the retroactive sick pay, overtime, and vacation time. The suit, filed in 2005, had at its core issues regarding special rates...