Virginia Car Dealership, Detailing Business Accused of Underpaying Employees [UPDATE]
by Erin Shaak
Last Updated on May 8, 2018
Baten et al v. Koons of Tysons Corner, Inc. et al
Filed: March 6, 2018 ◆§ 1:18cv242
A proposed collective action has been filed against the company and individual who respectively operate Koons Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram and car detailing business Auto Assets.
Virginia
Case Updates
March 8, 2021 – Case Settled, Dismissed
The proposed class action detailed on this page was settled out of court and subsequently dismissed.
A joint notice of settlement was submitted to the court on May 31, 2018 and can be found here. In the notice, the parties requested that a hearing on class certification that was scheduled for June 1, 2018 be postponed.
United States District Court Judge Claude M. Hilton signed off on an order dismissing the lawsuit with prejudice on June 20, 2018.
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A proposed collective action has been filed against the company and individual who respectively operate Koons Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram and car detailing business Auto Assets. The four named plaintiffs claim they worked between 65 and 75 hours per week at the Virginia car dealership washing, cleaning, and detailing automobiles, yet weren’t paid premium time-and-a-half wages for the hours they worked over 40 in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
The lawsuit ties the defendants’ alleged non-payment of overtime to the plaintiffs’ supposed misclassification as independent contractors despite the fact that Koons Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram reportedly “exercised a degree of control over them and their work such that they are clearly employees under any applicable legal standard.”
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