Traffic Engineering Services Owes Unpaid Straight-Time, OT Wages, Lawsuit Claims

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Traffic Engineering Services, LLC faces a collective and class action out of Pennsylvania wherein the plaintiff claims the company has failed to pay traffic control workers proper wages.

According to the lawsuit, the defendant’s traffic control workers—flaggers, crew leaders and truck-mounted attenuator operators—provide services at job sites across Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs take issue with the defendant’s alleged policy of automatically deducting 30 minutes from each day’s pay for meal breaks irrespective of whether employees are able to take a bona fide break for that long while fully relieved of their duties. Even further, the lawsuit claims that Traffic Engineering Services’ employee handbook stipulates that when workers finish early at a client’s job site, they are entitled to continue on the clock at the company’s warehouse until the end of their scheduled workday. Unfortunately, the plaintiffs say, the defendant simply sends workers home in such scenarios rather than paying them for the entirety of their scheduled work time.

All told, the suit claims, the defendant failed to pay traffic control workers all due straight-time hourly wages, as well as time-and-a-half overtime for weeks in which they worked more than 40 hours.