{"id":3216,"date":"2021-06-22T16:49:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T20:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fslawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=3216"},"modified":"2021-06-22T16:49:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T20:49:42","slug":"cvs-settles-employee-claims-of-unpaid-security-check-wait-time-for-1-85m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fslawfirm.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/cvs-settles-employee-claims-of-unpaid-security-check-wait-time-for-1-85m\/","title":{"rendered":"CVS Settles Employee Claims of Unpaid Security Check Wait Time for $1.85M"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CVS\u00a0Health Corp. has resolved\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/employment-authority\/articles\/1393485\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claims<\/a>\u00a0brought forward by distribution center employees in California for\u00a0unpaid wages. The $1.85 million settlement\u00a0will end allegations that CVS did not compensate\u00a0their warehouse employees for\u00a0time spent\u00a0waiting to\u00a0undergo security\u00a0checks. More than 3,500 eligible employees\u00a0who worked in California distribution\u00a0centers between January 16, 2015 and August 15, 2020\u00a0stand to benefit from this pay out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This&nbsp;lawsuit, which&nbsp;was filed back in&nbsp;2019, claimed CVS violated California state law&nbsp;for failing to compensate its distribution center employees for time spent waiting for and completing security checks. Employees&nbsp;went unpaid for&nbsp;these time periods&nbsp;that would occur&nbsp;before and after every&nbsp;single&nbsp;shift as well as&nbsp;pre and post&nbsp;meal breaks.&nbsp;Company&nbsp;protocol mandates that every employee in the distribution center&nbsp;must have&nbsp;their personal bags&nbsp;inspected&nbsp;every single time&nbsp;they come onto and leave the work floor.&nbsp;As an&nbsp;unavoidable policy that cannot be opted out of, this&nbsp;lawsuit argued that these employees should have been compensated&nbsp;for their time complying with these security protocols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over time, these moments spent undergoing these checks add upleaving workers with significant amounts of unpaid wages\u00a0that can even include overtime at time and a half their\u00a0regular hourly rate\u00a0when working over 40 hours\u00a0per week. If you work in the industry and are constantly waiting around to complete\u00a0security checks while being off-the-clock, you may be entitled\u00a0to recover\u00a0these owed wages.\u00a0If you would like to speak to an\u00a0employment attorney\u00a0to discuss your claims, you can reach our firm, Fitapelli &amp; Schaffer, LLP, for a free and confidential consultation at\u00a0(212) 300-0375. You can also\u00a0find additional helpful information regarding your rights at our website\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/Fslawfirm.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\nCVS\u00a0Health Corp. has resolved\u00a0claims\u00a0brought forward by distribution center employees in California for\u00a0unpaid wages. The $1.85 million settlement\u00a0will end allegations that CVS did not compensate\u00a0their warehouse employees for\u00a0time spent\u00a0waiting to\u00a0undergo security\u00a0checks. 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