Class Action Delivered to UPS Over Wage Violations

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United Parcel Service General Services Co.—known globally as UPS—is the defendant in a class action case out of New York claiming the company failed to pay seasonal employees the federal minimum wage for all hours worked. The plaintiff, a seasonal driver’s helper and pre-loader, says she and similarly situated class members were not paid the minimum wage required by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) for the part-time four to six hours a day they were scheduled to work.

The lawsuit says seasonal helpers are required to show up at UPS facilities and then wait between 20 and 30 minutes for the shift’s assignment or task. If workers are not given an assignment, the lawsuit says, they were usually sent home without being paid for the time worked. Worse, the lawsuit claims seasonal workers were not allowed to clock in until they were on a truck actually “working.”