NEW YORK — Citigroup Inc. and a group of its home lending specialists recently filed a joint motion requesting preliminary court approval of a $4.7 million settlement. Both parties believe the settlement will resolve the home lending specialists’ putative class action overtime claim. The home lending specialists claimed Citigroup misclassified the employees as exempt from […]
NEW YORK — Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP recently told a New York federal court that the duties of temporary attorneys in the ongoing putative class and collective action wage and overtime lawsuit met the professional exemption requirements under New York labor laws and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The temporary attorneys claim […]
NEW YORK — A Papa John’s International Inc. franchisee is facing a $2.1 million lawsuit for six years of alleged underpayment of its delivery workers at its four Harlem locations. The New York Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, brought the lawsuit against New Majority Holdings LLC and Ronald Johnson, its owner, in mid-October for violation of […]
NEW YORK — Modell”s Sporting Goods Inc. recently received preliminary court approval of its settlement in the collective action overtime lawsuit brought by its assistant store managers. The assistant store managers claimed the sporting goods chain misclassified them as exempt from overtime time pay requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and state labor […]
NEW YORK — Telephone claims adjusters for Government Employees Insurance Co. (GEICO) will get a second chance at their collective action overtime pay lawsuit. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed with the district court’s findings, reversed the summary judgment order, and remanded the case back to the lower court for trial. The claims adjusters […]
NEW YORK — On September 16 of this year, David Lola’s putative collective action overtime pay lawsuit against Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP and Tower Legal Staffing Inc. was dismissed in a New York federal court based on North Carolina’s definition of “practice of law.” Lola has now filed a notice of appeal […]