PHILADELPHIA — David Hoover, a former Jiffy Lube employee, filed a class action suit against the company alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and Pennsylvania wage and hour laws. Hoover worked for Jiffy Lube as a customer service technician and assistant manager in one of its franchise operations in Warminster, Pennsylvania for […]
PHILADELPHIA — According to a federal court, employers must compensate employees for taking short breaks under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The court issued this decision in a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) on behalf of telemarketing employees against their employer, American Future Systems Inc. After […]
PHILADELPHIA — A federal appeals court decided against a group of corrections officers who worked at a county prison in Pennsylvania who filed a class action against the state for alleged violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The officers claimed that they should have been paid for 15 minutes of an hour-long meal […]
PITTSBURGH — A federal district court in Pennsylvania held that Consol Energy, a company that owned a coal mine in the state, was not required to pay overtime to the members of a class action suit filed by its employees. The suit, filed by an employee on behalf of a putative class of affected workers, […]
PHILADELPHIA — A former armored car driver who is the representative plaintiff for a class of drivers settled her suit against a former employer, Eastern Armored Services Inc. The driver alleged that Eastern violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and failed to pay the covered class overtime as required. The suit alleged that Eastern […]
PHILADELPHIA — A group of emergency room workers filed an overtime suit against a Philadelphia-based hospital chain for illegal denial of overtime pay under the Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Act. Specifically, the workers claimed that night-shift workers in the Aria Health’s Torresdale campus had their pay automatically docked for meal breaks that they were always required […]