TAMPA, Fla. — Call center employees at One Touch Direct LLC received conditional class certification in their proposed collective action wage and overtime pay lawsuit in Florida federal court. The call center employees claim the company failed to pay them for all of their time spent working in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act […]
TAMPA — MetroPCS Wireless Inc, a telecommunications company acquired by T-Mobile USA Inc. in 2013, has reached a settlement with its account service representatives who alleged they were denied overtime wages in violation of federal and New York and California state labor laws. The $1.85 million settlement resolves the claims that had not been resolved […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A group of Jimmy John’s assistant store managers are claiming the sandwich chain misclassified their positions and wrongfully denied them the overtime wages to which they were entitled. In their proposed class action overtime pay claim, the assistant managers claim the company classified them as “exempt” under the “executives” exemption, even though […]
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A former impress manager is suing Office Depot for alleged violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The manager claims the company failed to pay overtime when he, and other impress managers, worked more than 40 hours each week. In the proposed class action overtime claim he filed in […]
TAMPA — Lowe’s human resource managers reached a settlement with the company in their overtime pay class action lawsuit. Early in November, a Florida federal court granted final approval of the $3.5 million settlement, but reserved the issue of the $1.3 million in attorneys’ fees for a later date. The human resource managers claimed the […]
TAMPA — After approving a $3.5 million class action settlement for an overtime pay lawsuit, a Florida federal judge approved a $1.3 million request for attorneys’ fees. The lawsuit stemmed from an August 2012 claim that Lowe’s misclassified its human resource managers as exempt from overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Lowe’s strongly […]