AAA Towing & Recovery Sued for Allegedly Unpaid Wages, Retaliation

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A lawsuit claims that AAA Towing & Recovery, LLC—which does business as M.I.A Towing & Recovery—and the company’s owner failed to pay a former employee for all hours worked and illegally fired the man for asking about his due wages.

The plaintiff worked for the defendants in Florida as a tow truck driver from August 2017 to January 2018, the suit says. The complaint expands upon the alleged agreement governing the man’s wages:

“Defendants promised to pay Plaintiff 30% from every service performed by him. In the alternative, Defendants guaranteed Plaintiff a minimum of $750.00 for a week of 5 days/40 hours weekly, or $18.75 an hour. As per the agreement Plaintiff would be paid the minimum of $750.00 weekly or 30% commissions, whichever was higher.”

The plaintiff claims the defendants did not follow through on this agreement and instead paid him a different amount each week. The driver also alleges he received no payment at all for three weeks of work, including wages for his first week at the job that were supposedly held by the defendants “as a [d]eposit.” On top of that, the suit charges the man was deprived of compensation for at least 72 hours of overtime work and regularly received his wages late and in partial payments.

The case goes on to allege that the plaintiff was fired in retaliation for complaining about his unpaid wages. According to the complaint, the plaintiff asked the company’s owner about his due pay “many times,” to which the man “promised to pay him later.” After continuously trying to speak to the owner about his lack of pay, the suit continues, the plaintiff was fired by his manager.

The plaintiff seeks to recover three weeks’ worth of unpaid wages, time-and-a-half pay for all overtime work, and $75.00 the man was unable to cash due to a bad check, the complaint says.