LOS ANGELES — Jewel Garner, a former paralegal with DineEquity Inc., the parent company of IHOP and Applebee’s restaurants, filed a wage suit against the company for violating the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the California Labor Code. Garner was fired in February of 2015 after her supervisors claimed that she withheld information about […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Rose Feaver, Myungshun Shim, and Artin Adamian are outpatient pharmacy managers who filed a proposed class action suit against their employer, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., for alleged violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the California Labor Code. The plaintiffs alleged that Kaiser required them to work off the […]
LOS ANGELES — Maria Garcia, a former sales clerk for a Hollister Co. store in Los Angeles, filed a class action wage suit against her former employer for alleged violations of the wage provisions of the California Labor Code. In her suit, Garcia is seeking unspecified damages of not less than $5 million, in addition […]
LOS ANGELES — After conducting a hearing, a California federal court approved a proposed settlement of a wage suit filed by a class of current and former pharmacists against their employer, Rite Aid, alleging violations of the California Labor Code. The settlement amounts to $9 million and settles the claims of a class consisting of […]
LOS ANGELES — After a federal court granted preliminary approval of a $36 million settlement of a Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) wage suit between a group of residential real estate appraisers and their employer, Bank of America, attorneys have submitted a request for $12 million in attorneys’ fees. This would constitute an upward departure […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Appealing a decision of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Encino Motorcars LLC petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its appeal of a Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) decision stating that service advisers at an auto dealership are entitled to overtime pay. In response, a group of service advisers have submitted […]