MYRTLE BEACH, SC — Three former servers for a Myrtle Beach, South Carolina restaurant recently filed a collective action unpaid overtime lawsuit against the company claiming that the defendant violated federal wage and labor laws by requiring servers to split their tip earnings with the house.
DENVER, CO — A Canadian oil and gas company recently agreed to a multimillion dollar settlement with dozens of former fracking workers to resolve claims the defendant improperly classified employees as overtime exempt, paying the individuals a flat salary and no overtime wages.
STATESBORO, GA — A U.S. federal judge recently ordered a Georgia Vidalia onion farmer to pay workers $1.4 million in unpaid overtime and damages over allegations that the defendant failed to properly pay workers under federal labor and wage laws.
NEW YORK — A veteran photographer for The New York Times recently filed an UO lawsuit against the newspaper claiming that the defendant failed to pay him over 3,300 hours worth of overtime.
ATLANTA — Thomasville, Georgia-based Flowers Foods, Inc. and Flowers Baking Co. of Jamestown L.L.C. recently settled a multimillion dollar unpaid overtime lawsuit with delivery drivers across the South over allegations that the company intentionally misclassified workers.
LOS ANGELES — In a major ruling for bank employees across the country, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled mortgage underwriters may not be classified as “administrative” workers and are therefore due overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours in a single week.