LOS ANGELES — Employees working for Wolfgang Puck’s restaurants in California have settled a class action wage and overtime lawsuit. The $1.7 million settlement gained approval from a California federal judge recently. The settlement is intended to resolve the employees’ claims that Wolfgang Puck’s restaurants failed to provide rest and meal breaks and failed to […]
LOS ANGELES — Mackone Development Inc., a contractor for the city of Los Angeles, is facing a lawsuit brought by the Los Angeles City Attorney for failure to pay proper hourly wages and overtime pay. The City’s claim for wage and overtime pay law violations alleges more than $250,000 in unpaid wages. In addition to […]
SAN FRANCISCO — The owners of five San Francisco Bay Area care facilities which provide care for the elderly and the ill settled an overtime pay lawsuit with the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) shortly before the New Year. The settlement will provide close to $640,000 to 24 employees working for the five facilities. The […]
LOS ANGELES — The United States Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division has settled an overtime pay lawsuit brought on behalf of employees of El Pollo Loco for unpaid overtime wages. The El Pollo Loco franchise has four locations in Southern California, which are operated by four different companies, with a total of […]
LOS ANGELES — California Cartage Co. is facing a potential class action unpaid wage and overtime lawsuit from a group of its warehouse workers. The warehouse workers at the Port of Los Angeles claim the distribution company not only subjected them to harsh working conditions, it also failed to pay them all of the wages […]
LOS ANGELES — After the recent Supreme Court decision rejecting Amazon warehouse employees’ claims for overtime pay for time spent in post-shift security screenings, a California district court judge has dismissed two similar claims brought against Apple. In June 2014, the district court judge declined to dismiss the two Apple overtime pay lawsuits while the […]