NEW YORK — JCPenney Co. Inc. was denied their request to dismiss a proposed wage and overtime collective action lawsuit in New York federal court recently. The proposed collective action alleges the company required its employees work off the clock without pay. According to the court’s decision, JCPenney’s offer to pay the named plaintiffs their alleged damages, […]
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 […]
ISLIP, N.Y. — Just weeks after T.J. Maxx assistant managers filed a class action overtime pay claim in Florida federal court, a New York federal judge has denied a request for class status in a separate T.J. Maxx assistant manager overtime wage claim. According to the judge’s decision, the circumstances of each of the potential […]
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 […]