JACKSON, Miss. — Employees for the Hinds County Sheriff’s Department are closer to resolving their claim against the department for unpaid overtime wages. The department’s supervisors recently approved $1 million for payment of the unpaid wages. The $1 million does not technically resolve the city employees’ class action wage and overtime pay lawsuit. Nor does […]
FARGO, N.D. — A hotel owner in Fargo is facing a $200,000 lawsuit brought by U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) for violations of minimum wage and overtime pay laws under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), along with the wage laws in Montana and North Dakota. Thirteen hotels, owned by Bharat “Brian” Patel, are affected […]
HOUSTON — OneSource Building Technologies, Inc. is facing a potential collective action overtime pay lawsuit in Texas federal court. The lawsuit, brought by a former field technician, claims the company violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) when it misclassified its field technicians as independent contractors, instead of as employees. OneSource also allegedly failed to […]
ALBANY, N.Y. — Matthew Bender & Co., a unit of LexisNexis, is the subject of a wage and overtime pay lawsuit filed in New York federal court in late November 2014. The lawsuit, brought by three employees, alleges Matthew Bender, one of the nation’s largest law book publishers, failed to pay its employees for all […]
LOS ANGELES — After the recent Supreme Court decision rejecting Amazon warehouse employees’ claims for overtime pay for time spent in post-shift security screenings, a California district court judge has dismissed two similar claims brought against Apple. In June 2014, the district court judge declined to dismiss the two Apple overtime pay lawsuits while the […]
Mass. — Bartenders and servers for Legal Sea Foods, a restaurant chain of upscale seafood restaurants on the East Coast, have filed two proposed class action lawsuits against the seafood chain alleging wage violations. The two proposed class actions claim the seafood restaurant chain required its tipped employees to share their tips with non-tipped employees in […]