MURIETTA, Calif. — A group of general managers for Chuck E. Cheese’s restaurants were denied class certification in a wage suit filed by a former general manager, Richard Sinohui, alleging violations of California labor law. Sinohui worked in one of the restaurant’s Murietta, California locations and sought to represent a class including all general managers […]
NEW YORK — A group of tipped employees who filed a collective action suit against TGI Friday’s for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) asked a federal court for permission to file a third amended complaint that would include more than the classes that the court conditionally certified in January 2015. Additionally, the […]
NEW YORK — To settle claims that it violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Bank of America and its subsidiary Merrill Lynch have entered into a preliminary agreement with the financial adviser trainees that filed an overtime suit against the company. The plaintiffs were part of a five-stage training program to become full financial […]
LOS ANGELES — A group of Uber drivers who filed a wage suit against the company for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) have formally asked a federal court to grant them conditional class certification. The plaintiffs stated that there was sufficient evidence to show that the proposed class was subjected to the […]
N.J. — Carlos Robles, an employee of a group of Houlihan’s restaurants in New Jersey owned by ACE Restaurant Group, Inc., filed a wage suit alleging that the restaurant violated the New Jersey Wage and Hour Law by failing to pay him overtime. The suit proposes a collective class including all those who worked or […]
LOS ANGELES — Alejandro Ruiz, who was an employee of JCP Logistics Inc., a J.C. Penney Co. Inc. subsidiary, has agreed to settle his class action overtime suit alleging violations of wage provisions of California labor laws. The settlement agreement would total $900,000, $300,000 of which would be paid out for attorneys’ fees and $30,000 […]