SAN DIEGO — A group of Black and Decker employees agreed to settle their wage claims under the California state law against their employer in the amount of $4.97 million. These plaintiffs included field technicians who alleged that the company failed to properly compensate them for their time spent driving to worksites, failed to pay […]
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A group of 1,375 current and former store managers and assistant store managers filed an overtime suit against Claire’s Boutiques Inc. alleging violations of California labor laws. The suit alleged that Claire’s Boutiques failed to properly account for the hours worked by the plaintiffs and did not provide them with sufficient […]
LOS ANGELES — A group of at least 50 current and former employees filed a class action suit against Loews Hotel Hollywood LLC alleging violations of California labor laws governing overtime and minimum wage. According to the suit, the class members were hourly nonexempt employees who earned and were paid portions of “service charges” that […]
LOS ANGELES — A group of Los Angeles port truckers settled their suit against their employer, Shippers Transport Express Inc., for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) for $11 million. The group consisted of about 540 drivers who alleged that they had been wrongly classified as independent contractors. The members of the class […]
LOS ANGELES — After nearly a decade of litigation, which included a jury trial, a bench trial, and several appeals, a federal district court approved the settlement of a fair labor standards class action between former employees of Chinese Daily News, Inc. and their former employer, which is the largest Chinese-language newspaper in the United […]
SAN FRANCISCO — The plaintiffs in a class action wage and hour lawsuit against Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) settled their claims on behalf of 5,000 former employees for 2.5 million dollars. The settlement includes all employees in California in an hourly, non-exempt position at any time between Nov. 21, 2009 and Oct. 31, 2014. The […]