SACRAMENTO — Delta Air Lines Inc. received preliminary approval of its $1.4 million settlement with its cargo employees in California federal court recently. Along with granting preliminary approval, the California federal judge conditionally certified a class of approximately 1,140 “Ready Reserve” customer cargo employees working for Delta from March 2009 to March 2014 in California. The […]
LOS ANGELES — Apple Inc. retail and corporate employees received class certification in their overtime pay lawsuit recently. The newly certified class includes six subclasses with a total of about 20,000 current and former employees who claim the company denied employees’ proper meal breaks and proper wages on their final paychecks, and illegally delayed final […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Mechanics, detailers, and other employees at California CarMax Auto Superstores will have to arbitrate their class action overtime wage claim, according to a California federal judge. The CarMax employees brought their suit in March claiming the company’s piece-rate payment system resulted in unpaid wages during non-repair time and unpaid overtime. The employees […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Delivery drivers for Home Depot Inc. had their putative class action overtime pay lawsuit dismissed recently. The drivers claimed Home Depot intentionally misclassified them as independent contractors to avoid paying proper wages and overtime. However, the court found that the delivery drivers were not actually employed by Home Depot. The Drivers’ Claim […]
LOS ANGELES — McDonald’s employees brought a class action overtime wage claim in California state court in March of this year. The employees claim McDonald’s store managers altered time records by erasing employees’ hours worked, denied meal breaks, failed to pay overtime, and required off-the-clock work. In April, McDonald’s requested the case be removed to federal […]
LOS ANGELES — The parties in a proposed class action wage claim against Southwest Airlines Co. have reached a proposed settlement recently. Southwest has agreed to create a fund to cover the $1 million settlement that will resolve the claims of its current and former employees that the airline failed to pay terminated employees on […]