Wages

Can Undocumented Immigrants Make Personal Injury Claims in California?

In the American legal system, when people are injured, they may be entitled to compensation for their injuries. When someone is injured in an accident through no fault of their own, it is reasonable to expect to recover lost wages, compensation for the past and future medical expenses, including doctor’s visits, emergency room …


Lawsuit Claims Kansas City Skirting Court Mandate on Overtime Pay for EMTs, Paramedics

Three years after Kansas City settled claims that it had failed to pay certain overtime wages, Fire Department medical staff are back in court saying the city is circumventing the court’s ruling. A lawsuit filed Thursday in Jackson County Circuit Court on behalf of certain emergency medical technicians and paramedics says the city has lowered some pay scales — so that the plaintiffs continue to …


Burma Superstar Restaurants’ Attorney Speaks After Unfair Wages Lawsuit

The Burma Superstar restaurants attorney released a statement Wednesday about three employees suing the chain for unfair wages. The attorney for the restaurants located in Alameda, San Francisco and Oakland says they have always “The owners value their team as an extension of their family, and strive to treat everyone with the utmost respect, providing good wages and …


Landman Files Class Action Lawsuit Alleging Percheron Energy, LLC Failed to Pay Overtime Wages

Bohrer Brady, LLC has filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of a former landman for Percheron Energy, LLC seeking to recover unpaid overtime wages, liquidated damages and attorney’s fees. The plaintiff seeks to represent landmen who worked for Percheron Energy, LLC within the last three years. Houston, Texas (PRWEB) September 07, 2016 A lawsuit filed in the Southern District of Texas claims …


Almost a Fifth of Chipotle’s Employees Say They Were Forced to Work for No Pay

What started as “workplace morale” problems for Chipotle has snowballed into a huge class-action lawsuit over unpaid wages. A daunting number of employees — 9,961, or roughly 1 in 5 — have joined the complaint, which claims the chain “routinely requires hourly-paid restaurant employees to punch out, and then continue working until they are given permission to leave.” Managers allege they also …


Union-Busting Bakery Accused of Wage Theft in Class-Action Lawsuit

Six months after the lopsided defeat of a union campaign at Portland Specialty Baking, a group of workers there have filed a lawsuit accusing the company of violating Oregon wage and hour and sick leave laws. Working with the non-profit Northwest Workers’ Justice Project, attorneys Corinna Spencer-Scheurich, Michael Dale, and Phil Goldsmith filed the suit Aug. 8 in Multnomah County …


Class-Action Suit Advances Over Gerawan’s Payment of Farmworkers

A federal judge in Fresno is allowing a class-action lawsuit to move forward against Gerawan Farming, one of Fresno County’s largest agriculture companies. The lawsuit, filed in 2014, alleges that Gerawan has violated state and federal laws, including failing to pay minimum wages, failing to compensate employees for breaks, and failing to pay wages owed. Gerawan’s attorney, David Schwarz, said …


Crunch Trainers Allege Unpaid Wages in Lawsuit

Two trainers have filed a class-action lawsuit against Crunch, New York City, over unpaid wages, according to a New York Post report. Arielle Jernigan, a former trainer at the New York City Crunch on East 59th Street, and Kadeem Johnson, who remains employed at the club, filed the suit in New York state Supreme Court in Manhattan on behalf of 30 to 40 other Crunch trainers, according to the …


The Techtopus: How Silicon Valley’s Most Celebrated CEOs Conspired to Drive Down 100,000 Tech Engineers’ Wages

In early 2005, as demand for Silicon Valley engineers began booming , Apple’s Steve Jobs sealed a secret and illegal pact with Google’s Eric Schmidt to artificially push their workers wages lower by agreeing not to recruit each other’s employees, sharing wage scale information, and punishing violators. On February 27, 2005, Bill Campbell, a member of Apple’s board of directors and senior …