NEW YORK — Skycaps at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York will receive payouts from a nearly $1 million settlement with their employer. Allstate Maintenance LLC, the contractor working for JFK International, was accused of failing to meet minimum wage requirements for the last eight years. Of the nearly $1 million settlement, $625,000 […]
NEW YORK — Information and telecommunication employees at Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) have reached a settlement with the company for $11.8 million. The settlement is expected to resolve the employees’ class action overtime pay lawsuit against HP. The employees’ claimed to have been wrongfully denied overtime due to HP’s misclassification of the employees as exempt under […]
NEW YORK — The café featured in the Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks film “You’ve Got Mail,” Café Lalo, is now facing a putative class action overtime pay lawsuit. The lawsuit alleges violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and New York state minimum wage law related to the sharing of tips and failure […]
NEW YORK — More than 4,000 workers for Pret A Manger (USA) Ltd., a sandwich chain, will share in the $910,000 settlement that recently received final approval from a New York federal judge. The workers claimed the sandwich chain failed to pay them for time spent donning and doffing their uniforms, as well as time […]
NEW YORK — There are an increasing number of proposed class action overtime pay lawsuits brought by contract attorneys against their firms. Contract attorneys are attorneys employed on a temporary basis with law firms for specific projects or activities. Recently, a contract attorney in North Carolina filed a lawsuit against the law firm of Skadden […]
NEW YORK — More than 4,000 tipped employees at Ruby Tuesday restaurants will share in the $3 million settlement offered in their collective action wage and overtime lawsuit with the company, pending final court approval. The servers, bussers, and bartenders claimed the restaurant chain prohibited them from logging all of their work hours into the […]