CHICAGO — A group of video store employees who filed an overtime suit against Family Video Movie Club, Inc., for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and Illinois state labor laws have been granted class certification by a federal district court. The same workers had apparently tried to get class certification in 2013, […]
CHICAGO — According to the Tribune, a former employee of Raise Marketplace filed suit against the company for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). According to the suit, the company failed to pay the plaintiff overtime pay as he was misclassified as exempt from FLSA. The plaintiff was employed by Raise Marketplace as […]
CHICAGO — A group of police officers employed by the Chicago Police Department Bureau of Organized Crime previously filed an overtime lawsuit against the agency for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The case failed to settle and is now at the first stages of trial. The case is one in a line […]
CHICAGO — In a recently filed proposed collective action wage and overtime pay lawsuit, Citigroup Inc. is alleged to have misclassified its information technology (IT) contractors and denied them the overtime to which they were entitled. The lawsuit, filed in New York federal court, claims the company violated the Fair Labor Standards Act when it classified the […]
CHICAGO — TCF Financial Corp. is being accused of misclassifying its assistant bank managers as exempt from overtime wages. In the recent potential class action overtime pay lawsuit, the assistant bank managers allege the misclassification was intentional and the company wanted to avoid paying for the overtime they knew the assistant managers would be working. […]
CHICAGO — Rural King, the Illinois-based farm and home store, is facing a wage and overtime pay lawsuit from its employees located at its corporate headquarters in Mattoon, Illinois. Six employees, including John Mayhouse, Virginia Slifer, and Kevin Wehrheim, filed their lawsuit in Illinois federal court earlier this year. The plaintiffs are seeking a jury […]