A former water sales representative working inside Costco Wholesale Corp. stores has filed a proposed class action overtime pay lawsuit against their employer, DS Services Inc., a bottled water company. The sales representative claims the bottled water company’s wage-and-hour policies violate the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and resulted in a failure to pay representatives […]
Avis Budget Car Rental LLC and its shift managers believed they had reached a settlement in their class action overtime pay lawsuit. But a Florida federal judge has refused to approve the settlement as it currently is. The judge returned the settlement offer with instructions to provide more information within 30 days regarding how much […]
Restaurant workers for Captain D’s LLC., a seafood restaurant chain, filed a putative class action wage and overtime lawsuit in Tennessee federal court recently. The seafood chain employees claim the company violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and Tennessee state wage law when it failed to pay for all the time they worked. The […]
NEWARK — Exxon Mobil Corp. was recently ordered to arbitrate an ongoing overtime claim over unpaid travel time. A New Jersey federal judge determined the overtime claim fell under the collective bargaining agreement between Exxon and a workers’ union, the Independent Laboratory Employees’ Union Inc. (ILEU). The ILEU filed a motion seeking to compel Exxon’s […]
BALTIMORE — A Comcast Corp. subsidiary, Comcast Cable Communications Management LLC, has been accused of destroying evidence in its proposed class action overtime pay lawsuit. The plaintiffs, call center employees, are requesting sanctions in a Maryland federal court. In their request, they allege Comcast knowingly failed to retain and preserve computer logs vital to their […]
SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit was recently urged to revive a former Medtronic Inc. salesman’s class action overtime lawsuit. The former salesman claims the medical device company failed to pay proper overtime to its sales associates in California in violation of California labor laws. Jonathan Sultan, the former Medtronic salesman, claims if his individual […]