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 […]
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 […]