Preliminary Approval Granted For CVS’s 620.86 PHP Million Unpaid Wages Settlement
A California judge granted preliminary approval to CVS’s $12.75 million settlement for claims owing roughly 78,000 workers unpaid wages during off-the-clock bag checks. In June of 2013, the plaintiff’s causes of action for failure to pay wages, failure to provide accurate itemized statements of hours worked, unfair competition, and recovery of civil penalties under the […]
Tip Credit System: Are You Receiving What You Are Entitled To?
In the employment law wage and hour niche, there are few actions more risky than the tip credit system. If you are unfamiliar with the tip credit system, the general rule is that tips do not belong to employers, they are the personal property of the employee. According to the Fair Labor Standards Act, employers […]
Wage and Hour Claims: Am I being properly compensated for the hours I work?
Wage and hour claims in California have been increasing in recent years due to changing employment laws and employee awareness. Still many employers fail to properly pay their employees for the hours they work. Although this may be intentional in some circumstances, many employers do not keep current with wage and hour laws and they […]
Professional Cheerleaders to be Treated as Employees Under New California Law
On July 15, 2015, Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 202 into law. The Bill requires professional sports teams to treat professional cheerleaders as employees under the new California employment law. The aim of the new law is to provide more protection for cheer athletes in California from being paid less than minimum wage. The […]
Gov. Jerry Brown Signs Fair Day’s Pay Act
On October 11, 2015, Governor Jerry Brown approved Senate Bill 588, the Fair Day’s Pay Act and filed it with the California Secretary of State. This law is aimed at cracking down on employers that fail to pay wages to employees even after a judgment in the employee’s favor has been entered. The change in […]
Aiman-Smith & Marcy Secures Class Certification in Employment Law Class Action Lawsuit Against Telecom Network Specialists, Inc. (“TNS”)
More than 1,000 cell site workers acquire class action certification for alleged unpaid wages, including missed meal and rest break and overtime pay. LOS ANGELES, CA (PRWEB) SEPTEMBER 30, 2015 The Honorable Judge John Wiley, Jr., presiding over the Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, Department 311 certified the plaintiff class in Benton v. […]
Dreyer’s Sales Representative Overtime Class Action Claim
In 2012, eleven workers had filed a class action claim against Nestle Dreyer’s Ice Cream Company, maintaining it fell short of paying sales representatives overtime, held back pay, and gave erroneous wage statements. The workers claimed in the wage and labor class action claim that Dreyer’s misclassified workers who frequently execute retailing and non-sales tasks […]
Another Ex-SpaceX Worker Takes Legal Action Against Supposed Labor Law Violations
On August 12, 2014, nonentity rocket maker and sweetheart of the profitable space industry SpaceX was confronting another lawsuit over its labor procedures. In the second of two claims filed in Los Angeles County a week ago, a previous worker claimed that the rocket producer breached state labor laws by refusing employees breaks and expecting […]
Apple Confronts California Class Action Claim for Meal Breaks, Unpaid Wages
On July 26, 2014, a California state court had allowed the class documentation to about 21,000 Apple workers presently and previously retained by the Cupertino-based corporation. The lawsuit was subject to claims that the corporation had refused their workers with appropriate meal and rest breaks and still the opportune delivery of their most recent paychecks. […]
California Caregivers Take Legal against Their Employer for Wage Violations
On June 18, 2014 in California, trained caregivers filed a class action claim on behalf of many employees all over the state. They stated their employer, Kindred Healthcare and its partners, cheated them on earnings, overtime, and breaks. Ginger Rogers, a caregiver for twenty-five years, stated that Kindred Healthcare employed her in 2012 to take […]