LOS ANGELES — A former field technician for telecommunication company T-Mobile recently filed a proposed class action unpaid overtime lawsuit against the defendant for almost $19 million in damages for hundreds of hours of unpaid overtime, meal breaks, and other damages under California wage and labor laws. The complaint alleges a company-wide policy of keeping technicians on-call for an entire week, severely limiting the workers’ free time and essentially forcing the technicians to work during the on-call period without sufficient minimum wage, break, and overtime pay.
In his complaint, the named plaintiff alleges that T-Mobile forced field technicians to remain on-call 24-hours a day for a week with the expectation these workers would immediately drop whatever they were doing and respond to field service calls. While the workers would be paid their appropriate wages for hours actually spent on service calls, the lawsuit claims that T-Mobile only paid the field service technicians $22.47 per day if these individuals otherwise did not need to respond to calls.
The plaintiff claims the policy left him and other field technicians unable to fully utilize what should have been unpaid free time because their activities were limited due the expectations placed on them by the defendant. As a result, the plaintiff claims he and others essentially worked off the clock and should have been compensated for hundreds of hours in overtime and other wages.
Specifically, the complaint says that as a result of not being paid for on-call work, the plaintiffs actually earned less than the state mandated minimum wage and should be compensated for those wages, as well as one and a half times their regular hourly rate of pay for overtime hours. Furthermore, the plaintiff asks for additional compensation for missed meal breaks as California labor and wage laws require workers be compensated with an additional hour of regular hourly pay if the employee cannot take his or her rest break immediately following the worker’s fifth hour on the job.
Field Technician Unpaid Overtime Lawsuit
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