Former Bus Drivers Sue TLC Transportation Over Alleged Wage Violations

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TLC Transportation Corp. of Westchester and its CEO are facing a proposed class action filed by two former employees who worked for the company as bus drivers and claim they were not paid properly. The first plaintiff says he often worked more than 40 hours per week but that the defendants “willfully refused” to pay him overtime and would alter his paystubs to reflect no more than 40 hours. On the rare occasion that they did pay him for additional hours, the complaint alleges, the defendants would issue a separate paycheck that compensated him at his straight-time rate and didn’t state the number of hours worked.

The second plaintiff says he regularly worked 57 hours per week but was not paid time-and-a-half wages for the first five hours of overtime he worked each week. According to the suit, he was not permitted to submit timesheets recording his actual hours worked. He claims his paystubs were an estimate of how long his routes should have taken and did not include the time he spent on-call at the defendants’ headquarters.

The case further argues that the defendants refused to reimburse bus drivers for purchasing “tools of the trade,” including cell phones.