NEW YORK — A lawsuit filed in New York state court continues a growing trend of NFL cheerleaders suing their football team’s organization for long-standing wage violations. Five former “Buffalo Jills”, Buffalo Bills cheerleaders, allege their team’s football organization and the companies managing the cheerleaders denied the cheerleaders minimum wage and overtime pay in violation […]
NEW YORK — Our New York City overtime lawyers file unpaid overtime lawsuits on behalf of workers who are not paid the legally required wages. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), a large number of workers who are entitled to overtime pay never receive the wages owed to them under federal or state law. […]
NEW YORK — A New York limousine service, Sunny’s Limousine Service Inc., has agreed to pay hundreds of its drivers $3.5 million to settle a wage and overtime lawsuit. The drivers recently requested approval of the preliminary settlement in a New York federal court. If the judge approves the settlement, it will settle both the […]
NEW YORK — Hundreds of health club employees in California will share in a recently approved $2.9 million overtime claim settlement. In addition to their unpaid overtime, the health club employees will be compensated for denied meal breaks going back four years, from June 2007 through June 2013. Equinox Holdings Inc., the parent company for […]
NEW YORK — A former unpaid intern, Casey Ojeda, was granted conditional collective action certification recently. The former intern filed a lawsuit under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) against MTV Networks Enterprises Inc., its music production company, and its parent company, Viacom Inc., for wage law violations. The New York federal judge that granted […]
NEW YORK — Contract representatives recently settled their overtime pay class action lawsuit with Bloomberg LP for $5.4 million. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in January 2013 and represents nearly 430 employees. The contract representatives believe they were misclassified as exempt. And they claim they worked over 40 hours a week and more […]