Rolling Green Landscape and Design Clipped with FLSA Lawsuit

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Two laborers formerly employed by Rolling Green Landscape and Design, Inc. have sued the company and its owner over alleged Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) violations. The plaintiffs claim they and other workers were not allowed to punch their time cards until the individual defendant arrived, and were not paid for this work time spent waiting, or for time spent prepping and loading trucks. Sometimes, the case continues, the individual defendant did not allow workers to punch in in the mornings, “instead punching in for them later in the work day.” The men claim they’re owed unpaid time-and-a-half hourly overtime for hours worked past 40 each week, as well as wages for time spent traveling to and from worksites and the company’s headquarters.

The complaint notes the defendant was subject to a Department of Labor investigation from 2008 through 2010 in which the DOL determined the companied owed more than $311,000 in unpaid overtime to 153 employees. In addition, the DOL found Rolling Green was improperly deducting workers’ wages for two 15-minute breaks and one hour of travel time per day. The case argues Rolling Green has not fulfilled any of its FLSA compliance agreements made following the results of the DOL’s investigation.

Further still, the case alleges the individual defendant “engaged in discriminatory behavior against [the plaintiffs] and other non-white Latino/Hispanic workers,” which included alleged sexual harassment, sexual assault, and racial slurs.