LOS ANGELES — CVS Pharmacy Inc. received final court approval in California state court recently on its $2.8 million settlement in a class action overtime pay lawsuit with its pharmacists. Pharmacists in Southern California claimed the retailer forced them to work seven days in a row without receiving overtime wages in violation of California labor […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Sales and stockroom associates at California Abercrombie & Fitch Trading Co. filed a putative class action lawsuit claiming misclassification and wrongful denial of overtime pay on July 30 in California state court. This week their claim was removed to California federal court. The company requested the change of courts because the associates’ […]
LOS ANGELES — Financial advisers and trainees for Chase Investment Services Corp. (CISC) were denied class certification in California federal court recently. The advisers and trainees claimed the company misclassified them in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and California labor law and denied them the overtime wages to which they were entitled. […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Ma Laboratories Inc., an information technology distributor, will have to continue litigating the class action wage and overtime pay lawsuit its workers brought against it. The proposed class action recently received conditional certification from a California judge for both the overall proposed class and the subclasses it is divided into. The workers […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Unlicensed accountants and audit employees for Deloitte & Touche LLP were denied class recertification in the Ninth Circuit earlier this month. The three-judge panel refused the plaintiffs’ request to reverse the lower court’s decision decertifying the group based on a lack of common issues. The panel found the district court judge’s ruling […]
LOS ANGELES — Tellers and other bank employees for JPMorgan Chase Bank NA appear to have reached a settlement with the bank in their class action overtime pay lawsuit. The parties have submitted the $12 million settlement agreement to a California federal court judge. They are now seeking preliminary approval. The Settlement Both parties agreed […]