NEW YORK — New York City transportation security workers will receive $1.3 million in a settlement reached with AlliedBarton Security Services LLC for violations of New York’s wage-and-hours laws. The security workers raised concerns over AlliedBarton’s failure to pay prevailing wages, which were investigated and led to the current settlement. In the settlement, the city’s comptroller […]
NEW YORK — Audit associates with KPMG LLP recently lost their appeal to revive their overtime pay class action lawsuit. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the earlier, lower court ruling that KPMG had not misclassified the audit associates. Both courts determined the audit associates were exempt from overtime requirements and were not owed […]
NEW YORK — Coach Inc., the luxury leather goods designer known for its women’s handbags, is facing a class action overtime lawsuit in New York state court. The proposed class action claims Coach purposely misclassified employees as unpaid interns to avoid minimum wage and overtime requirements in violation of New York labor laws. This lawsuit […]
NEW YORK — Increasingly, former unpaid interns are suing their former employers for the wages the interns believe they have earned. Now, the former interns are receiving outside support for their claims. The National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) and others, including the Economic Policy Institute and the Writers Guild of America East, have submitted their […]
NEW YORK — Universal Music Group Inc. (UMG), the parent company of Def Jam Recordings and Motown Records, faces a putative collective action in New York federal court. This collective action lawsuit is another in a growing trend of unpaid interns suing their former “employer” for failure to pay minimum wage and overtime. In this […]
NEW YORK — Arnold Worldwide LLC, a Boston-based advertising agency, faces a putative class action for violating New York State labor laws. The class action claims the ad agency did not pay their interns despite the fact the interns did the same or similar work of regular employees. This claim comes shortly after an unpaid […]