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Employee Misclassification Case Against Whiting Petroleum Corp. Bumped to Texas Federal Court
March 2, 2018 A former rig welder claims Whiting Petroleum misclassified certain employees as independent contractors exempt from overtime pay.
March 2, 2018 A former rig welder claims Whiting Petroleum misclassified certain employees as independent contractors exempt from overtime pay.
March 2, 2018 A former cook for Tandoori Touch and Punjabi Kabab House has filed suit against the restaurants’ operating companies and individual owners over alleged labor law violations.
March 2, 2018 Dibella Corp. and three individual owners are on the receiving end of a lawsuit filed by a former waiter who alleges he wasn’t paid properly while working at the defendants’ restaurant, La Villa.
March 2, 2018 Americare Home Solutions LLC is facing a proposed class and collective action that alleges the company attempts to avoid paying employees premium overtime wages by reducing their hourly pay rates during weeks in which they work more than 40 hours.
March 2, 2018 Petco Animal Supplies, Inc. is facing a proposed class and collective action in Pennsylvania from a former groomer who claims she wasn’t paid properly and was fired for complaining about the defendant’s pay practices.
March 2, 2018 A former police dispatcher claims Atherton, CA incorrectly paid overtime based on hours worked in a two-week period, and not those worked in a single week.
March 2, 2018 The plaintiff claims the companies violated California's labor code with regard to unpaid minimum wages and improperly calculated overtime pay.
March 2, 2018 The lawsuit claims the defendants failed to include the value of the plaintiff's lodging when calculating his regular pay rate for the purpose of tallying OT.
March 1, 2018 Three plaintiffs have filed a proposed class and collective action against RCL Management, LLC, which does business as B-Side Complex, in which they claim the restaurant/nightclub/bar operating company and its owners failed to pay proper wages.
March 1, 2018 Three plaintiffs allege the companies and individuals that run two Mokbar Korean restaurants in New York City failed to pay appropriate minimum, overtime and spread-of-hours wages.
March 1, 2018 Jim Giles Corp., which operates Central Bar in Manhattan, faces a lawsuit claiming it failed to pay proper minimum and overtime wages.
March 1, 2018 The plaintiff claims CRST owes him more than $25k in wages stemming, in part, from its failure to provide proper duty-free rest breaks for drivers.
February 28, 2018 Utiliquest, LLC has been named in a lawsuit filed by a former field technician who claims he and other employees were not properly compensated for their travel time in company-owned vehicles.
February 28, 2018 Eight plaintiffs claim current and former insurance agents nationwide were misclassified as independent contractors and are owed unpaid overtime.
February 28, 2018 Flowers Foods, Inc., Flowers Baking Co. of New Orleans LLC, and Flowers Baking Co. of Baton Rouge LLC are facing a proposed collective action in which four former distributors claim they were not paid proper wages.
February 28, 2018 A proposed class action has been filed against Lifestream Behavioral Center, Inc. by a former recovery specialist who says he wasn’t paid proper wages and was fired in retaliation for complaining about the defendant’s pay policies.
February 28, 2018 A former dishwasher and delivery worker has filed suit against Boonnak Tone, Inc. and an individual over claims that they failed to properly pay workers at their New York Thai restaurant Der Krung.
February 28, 2018 A former employee of Magnolia Hi-Fi, LLC has filed suit against the company claiming he is owed approximately $5,000.00 in unpaid commissions and was paid less than the minimum wage during his employment.
February 27, 2018 Three operating companies of Talmud Torah Khal Adas Yereim and two individuals are facing the claims of a former janitor who says he worked at the Jewish school without being paid proper wages.
February 27, 2018 Corning Incorporated is facing a lawsuit filed by a former employee who claims the company discriminated against black and female employees by not offering the same opportunities for advancement as 'non-black and male comparators.'
February 27, 2018 A proposed class and collective action has been filed against International Paper Company over allegations that current and former production workers have not been paid proper overtime wages over the last three years.
February 27, 2018 A proposed wage and hour collective action filed against 20/20 Communications, Inc. in April 2017 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee has been transferred to the Northern District of Texas.
February 26, 2018 South Florida Tile Delivery & Installation, Corp. and an individual with control of the business are facing a former employee’s claims that he was not paid overtime wages in accordance with the Fair Labor Standards Act.
February 26, 2018 Crittenden County, Arkansas is facing a proposed class and collective action filed by a former non-patrol deputy sheriff jail worker who claims the county failed to pay her proper overtime wages in accordance with federal law.
February 23, 2018 A former employee of Alpine Cleaners has filed suit against its three operating companies and three individual owners over claims that they violated federal and state labor laws.
February 23, 2018 A former server claims the restaurant's operating companies inappropriately applied a tip credit to tipped workers' pay.
February 23, 2018 Tum & Yum and Prik Thai Kitchen face a former tipped delivery employee's lawsuit in which he claims he was not paid proper minimum and overtime wages.
February 23, 2018 The plaintiff claims he worked 61 hours per week for Inwood Beer Garden & Bistro Inc. without appropriate minimum, overtime and spread-of-hours wages.
February 23, 2018 A former outbound sales rep claims Cincinnati Bell failed to account for monthly commissions in workers' rates of pay for the purposes of tallying OT.
February 23, 2018 A lawsuit against OTB Acquisition LLC claims the company failed to pay servers proper minimum wages.
February 22, 2018 Omnicare, Inc. and three subsidiaries are facing a former delivery driver's claims that the parties misclassified drivers as independent contractors and underpaid them.
February 22, 2018 Consolidated Communications Holdings, Inc. has been named in an employee’s lawsuit alleging the company owes her approximately $120,015.80 in unpaid overtime wages.
February 22, 2018 Expressive Lighting Inc. is facing a proposed class and collective action that takes issue with defendant’s allegedly illegal practice of denying employees overtime wages.
February 22, 2018 Arid Solutions, Inc. and an individual owner have been named as defendants in an employee’s proposed collective action that claims he wasn't paid proper overtime wages.
February 22, 2018 The operating companies that run two Dunkin Donuts locations in Flushing and Jamaica, New York are the defendants in a proposed collective and class action in which the plaintiff claims she’s owed unpaid wages.
February 22, 2018 The plaintiff claims she worked more than 10 hours per day and averaged 66 hours per week at Lincoln Terrace Cleaners without being paid proper wages.
February 22, 2018 Two companies and three individuals who operate Taqueria Meza are facing a former employee’s proposed collective action that claims the parties violated several provisions of state and federal labor laws.
February 22, 2018 Two operating companies of San Remo Café and four individual owners are facing a proposed collective action alleging the defendants violated several provisions of state and federal labor laws, including failure to pay proper wages.
February 21, 2018 Adam Builder Corp. (which does business as Adam Construction Co.) and two individuals with control of the business have been named as defendants in a proposed collective action filed by a former employee who claims he was not paid his due wages.
February 21, 2018 Liberty Transportation, Inc. is facing a lawsuit filed by a former employee who claims the defendant made unlawful deductions from his paychecks and paid him less than the minimum wage.
February 21, 2018 A former employee of The Kunjip has filed suit against the Korean restaurant’s two operating companies and two individual owners over claims that he is owed unpaid minimum, overtime, and spread-of-hours wages.
February 21, 2018 A former employee claims he worked as many as 56 hours per week as a security guard without appropriate overtime wages.
February 20, 2018 A former employee of SMS Systems, Inc. claims in a proposed class action that he was not paid proper overtime wages while working for the defendant as a field inspector.
February 20, 2018 Two plaintiffs have put their names on a proposed collective action in which they claim Senator Construction Group Inc. and its owner failed to pay proper overtime wages and comply with federal record-keeping requirements.
February 19, 2018 United Parcel Service, Inc. is facing an employee’s claims that the company violated labor laws by failing to properly pay its workers and provide them with required meal breaks and wage statements.
February 19, 2018 Two former employees of One Mile House have filed suit against the bar’s operating company and six individual owners claiming they weren’t paid proper wages.
February 19, 2018 GCB Services, LLC has been named as the defendant in a former employee’s proposed collective action that claims he and other workers should have been paid overtime wages.
February 19, 2018 A former employee of Trece Mexican Restaurant has filed suit against its three operating companies and two individuals over claims that they violated state and federal labor laws.
February 16, 2018 BH Management Services, LLC and an individual with control of the business have been named as defendants in a lawsuit filed by a former employee who claims he is owed unpaid wages.
February 16, 2018 Interfor U.S. Inc. is facing a former employee’s allegations that it failed to include shift premiums when determining his overtime wages and underpaid him as a result.