CHICAGO — Northwestern Memorial Hospital is an 899 bed facility based in Chicago, Illinois. It is affiliated to the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. The hospital is the third tallest in the United States as well as the 5th in the world. Northwestern Memorial Hospital Center has a couple of affiliated facilities as well, […]
CHICAGO — Recently, nearly 1,500 sales representatives for the online company Groupon Inc. were denied class certification in Illinois federal court. In their class action overtime pay lawsuit, the sales representatives claim they were denied overtime pay ever since the company went public in 2011. The Chicago federal judge who denied the certification ruled the […]
CHICAGO — Jimmy John’s Enterprises and one of its franchisees, JS Fort Group, were hit with a proposed class action wage and overtime pay lawsuit recently in Illinois federal court. A couple of employees, Karolis Kubelskas and Emily Brunner, from two separate Jimmy John’s locations in Illinois claim the sandwich food chain has a corporate policy […]
CHICAGO — ThyssenKrupp Waupaca Inc. asked the United States Supreme Court to make a ruling on the class action overtime lawsuit the company’s iron foundry employees brought against it. The iron foundry employees lost their case in district court, but won on appeal. Now ThyssenKrupp is trying one final appeal to the Supreme Court regarding […]
CHICAGO — Corporate Cleaning Service Inc., a high-rise window washing company, believes it should be exempt from overtime requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) when paying its commissioned employees. Corporate Cleaning claims its window washers are exempt because they are commissioned sales employees. The Department of Labor (DOL) disagrees with Corporate Cleaning and […]
CHICAGO — An Illinois law firm, Tressler LLP, faces a malpractice lawsuit in Illinois state court because of the advice its lawyers provided, which led to an overtime pay class action. Universal Security Corp.’s lawsuit claims the law firm did not understand employment law sufficiently enough to provide sound legal advice on the matter. As […]