LG Electronics Hit with Former Employee’s Wage and Hour Lawsuit in California

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LG Electronics U.S.A., Inc. faces a proposed class action filed by a former employee who alleges the electronics manufacturer failed to pay proper wages in accordance with the California Labor Code.

According to the 23-page case, LG Electronics’ alleged wage law violations allowed the company to enjoy “ill-gained profits at the expense of their employees.”

The plaintiff, who worked for LG between May 2014 and February 2020 in a non-exempt position, says his duties included collecting and inputting data; setting up project management improvement plans; and scheduling, collecting and logging total preventative maintenance plans. 

Although the plaintiff worked more than 40 hours per week or more than eight hours per day, the man never received proper time-and-a-half overtime pay, the case alleges. Per the complaint, LG Electronics often required workers to review documents and attend company meetings outside of their regularly scheduled hours yet denied any overtime payment requests.

The case goes on to claim the defendant failed to provide workers with proper meal and rest breaks, alleging employees were either forced to work through breaks or were denied a proper meal period before the end of their fifth hour of work due to being required to remain at the workplace or on standby for duty.

According to the suit, workers were not provided with one hour of pay at their regular rate for each day a meal or rest break was missed as required by law.

The plaintiff further alleges he was not paid California’s minimum wage for all hours worked nor all wages and unused accrued vacation time he was owed upon his separation from the company. Per the lawsuit, the California Labor Code stipulates an employee without a written contract should be paid all owed wages not later than 72 hours after separation from a company. The suit additionally alleges LG’s practice of “forcing” the plaintiff and other employees to execute a release of wage claims in order to receive their final pay is “unconscionable” and a violation of state law.

As a result of the aforementioned wage and hour abuses, the defendant failed to provide workers with accurate, itemized wage statements, the suit contends.

The lawsuit, which has been removed from state to federal court in California, proposes to cover a class consisting of all non-exempt employees who worked for LG Electronics in the state at any time within the past four years, with several proposed subclasses, and until a motion for class certification is filed.

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