Hy’s Livery Services Facing Class Action Over Allegedly Improper Meal Break Deductions

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A proposed class action has been filed in Connecticut against Hy’s Livery Service, Inc. and three individuals over the parties’ alleged failure to pay for one-hour meal breaks that their chauffeurs worked through.  According to the 16-page lawsuit, state law requires employers to provide at least a 30-minute meal break, while also mandating employees be compensated for meal breaks during which the employer’s operations are of a continuous nature and for which workers must be available to respond.

“Defendants Hy’s Livery Services, Inc. and its owners automatically deduct one hour per day from, the work time of their chauffeurs as meal time,” the lawsuit charges, “when in fact those workers do not actually take bona fide meal breaks. Defendants rules and procedures imposed restrictions and responsibilities on their chauffeurs during their work days which were so burdensome that taking meal breaks was virtually impossible.”