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Three Buffalo Wild Wings locations in New York have just been hit with a class action lawsuit seeking to recover minimum wages and overtime pay along with other owed wages. The popular sports bar and casual dining restaurant franchise, owned and operated by Banta Management Services, Inc., paid their tipped workers the reduced minimum wage rate or tip credit, however, failed to meet the strict statutory requirements that would permit them to apply the reduced minimum wage to their workers.

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Rock Chevy, a prominent car dealership in Illinois, has just been hit with a class action wage lawsuit. Two former sales representatives at the company have brought a lawsuit on behalf of other similarly situated commissioned workers against the company to try and remedy wage and hour violations. Plaintiffs allege Rock Chevy failed to pay minimum wages, agreed upon wages, unlawfully retained Plaintiffs’ wages, and made unlawful deduction from commissions.

Affected employees include sales representatives that worked at the Rock Chevy ...

This gender discrimination case, filed in 2016, alleged that the former prominent law firm of Chadbourne & Parke LLP willfully discriminated against the firm’s female partners by paying them less than their similarly situated male counterparts. The plaintiffs, Kerrie Campbell, Jaroslawa Johnson, and Mary Yelenick, brought this case under the Equal Pay Act and gender discrimination claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Law.

The legal battle recently came to an end between Chadbourne’s successor firm, Norton Rose Fulbright, ...