The Wine Group, one of the world’s largest winemakers producing about 53 million cases of wine annually, recently settled a wage and hour case for $6.8 million. A former employee, Eliazar Gonzalez, sued the wine company for unpaid wages and this past week a California Judge approved the settlement. The Wine Group currently has almost 1,000 employees, however the employees eligible for this class-action settlement include current and former hourly, non-exempt employees that worked with Wine Group ...
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Berry Bros General Contractors, one of the largest construction service providers in the United States, has just been sued over failing to pay its employees the proper wages. There are a significant number of potentially affected employees throughout the nation working on projects for Berry Bros in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and North Dakota. Affected job titles include mechanics, electricians, welders and other laborers with similar ...
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Delivery drivers for TFI International that were allegedly misclassified as independent contractors have arrived at a $4.75 million settlement to resolve claims of unpaid wages pending court approval. TFI, formerly known as Dynamex or Velocity Express, is a Canadian based transport and logistics company that services the United States, Mexico and Canada. Delivery Drivers for the company claimed in a lawsuit filed back in 2012 that they were improperly classified by TFI as independent contractors instead of ...
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In this past year alone after hurricane Irma and Maria wreaked havoc in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. To date $14,337,657 has been recovered in unpaid wages for recovery workers by the Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the Department of Labor (DOL). Almost 8,000 recovery workers have benefitted from this recovery process. Nevertheless, many thousands more may still be owed significant overtime pay.
The WHD’s efforts focused on educating employers and employees about compliance with ...
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Trunk Club, a Nordstrom subsidiary, which offers clients personal styling with mid to high end clothing brands recently agreed to pay its employees $1.75 million in a wage lawsuit. The hourly non-exempt workers alleged that they were required to perform work off-the-clock that went unpaid. Nordstrom’s Trunk Club offered their services nationwide with affected employees working in several states including California, Massachusetts, South Carolina, Illinois, Texas, Washington, D.C., and New York.
Under federal and state laws, including the ...
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To get their foot in the door, production assistants have been putting up with crazy work schedules on set for decades now in hopes of climbing the ranks in their field. However, there is nothing glamorous about working 12+ hour days and earning less than minimum wage. Most production assistants earn a day rate starting work hours before “call time” and working way after the crews on set wrap up. Positions such as production assistants and other ...
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Unfortunately, there are many job industries that frequently pay their workers a day rate or weekly salary without any regard to all the hours actually worked. This often denies a worker from being compensated correctly. They are left earning less than the hourly minimum wage and/or kept from receiving overtime pay at time and a half of what their regular hourly rates should be when working over 40 hours in a work week. The oil and gas industry, for example, ...
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Fitapelli & Schaffer, LLP has filed a class and collective action lawsuit against Sushi Seki, a high-end NYC sushi restaurant with three locations, alleging wage and hour violations under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the New York Labor Law (NYLL). The lawsuit seeks to recover unpaid minimum wages, overtime compensation, misappropriated tips, call-in pay, and other damages for current and former tipped employees, such as servers, bartenders, bussers, and food runners.
Among other claims, the lawsuit alleges that Sushi ...
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Assistant store managers in a variety of industries are stepping forward to demand their overtime pay. In the last five years, more than 25 settlements were reached totaling almost $150 million for assistant store managers who alleged they were misclassified as exempt from receiving overtime wages. Adding themselves to this list most recently are three assistant store managers from three different Kohl’s locations across the United States. The three former employees are proposing a collective action lawsuit ...
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Nearly 400 hard working New Yorkers in the construction industry are set to receive unpaid wages totaling over $1.2 million discovered through investigations started on January 1st of this year. Through a partnered effort between the District attorneys of all NYC, Westchester and Nassau Counties, this investigation has resulted in numerous indictments across several jurisdictions with nearly $700,000 already returned to affected workers. Governor Andrew Cuomo’s call for a crackdown in the industry was in response to ...
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