Hawaiian Court Hospitality, Others Pegged with Wage and Hour Lawsuit

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An hourly housekeeper claims in a proposed class action lawsuit that defendants Hawaiian Court Hospitality, LLC, Pinnacle Holdings X, LLC, EOC Solutions, Inc., M&M Cleaning, USA, Inc. and one individual failed to pay proper minimum and overtime wages. The plaintiff claims she was paid $3 per room, but due to the sheer volume of work assigned to her and proposed class members, the individuals ended up working more than 40 hours per week split between the individual defendant’s two hotels—all without proper time-and-a-half overtime wages.

The complaint argues that the defendants—a group of staffing agencies that function as joint employers—paid proposed class members at a piece-meal rate, and issued the workers separate paychecks, one from each hotel, to avoid paying proper wages.

“All defendants violated the [Fair Labor Standards Act] by intentionally issuing [the plaintiff] two separate checks, one from each hotel, to avoid paying overtime and minimum wages,” the complaint reads. “Although [the plaintiff’s] aggregated time worked is more than 40 hours per workweek, each paycheck shows less than 40 hours and is devoid of overtime premium wages.”