Wage and Hour

March 16, 2023 RateGenius and Savings Group face a proposed class action lawsuit after terminating without advance notice nearly 140 employees in January 2023.

March 10, 2023 A class action claims Congress and the U.S. government have systematically issued lower pay raises and retirement benefits to federal employees and retirees in “non-foreign areas” in comparison to their counterparts in the contiguous 48 states.

February 24, 2023 A lawsuit claims the CommuniCare Family of Companies has failed to pay proper overtime to registered nurses recruited from the Philippines and threatened to sue the workers if they quit before repaying $16,000 in so-called immigration expenses.

February 21, 2023 A class action alleges Skyway Claims Services owes 60 days’ pay and benefits to workers terminated without proper advance notice around February 15, 2023.

February 20, 2023 The Hershey Company faces a class and collective action that alleges it has failed to pay hourly employees proper overtime wages for time spent washing their hands and putting on and taking off protective gear.

February 14, 2023 Quad Recording Studios faces a lawsuit wherein two former workers allege they were misclassified as interns and paid nothing despite performing work with minimal educational benefits.

February 13, 2023 A collective action alleges Eli Lilly & Company and Lilly USA, LLC have “systematically” discriminated against employees over the age of 40 by denying them promotions in favor of younger workers.

January 31, 2023 Verizon Connect Fleet USA and Verizon Connect, Inc. have been hit with a collective action that alleges the companies have “willfully” failed to track employee hours and pay proper overtime wages to certain workers.

January 30, 2023 Lexington County, South Carolina faces a class action filed by two essential workers who allege that it has unlawfully withheld COVID-19 premium pay from certain eligible employees.

January 25, 2023 A collective action lawsuit alleges the owners of Ohio-based Cedar Point Amusement Park have discriminated against seasonal employees over the age of 40 by offering company-provided subsidized housing to only younger workers.

January 9, 2023 Fastaff, LLC and U.S. Nursing Corporation face a class action that claims the staffing agencies offered attractive contracts to travel nurses only to cut their pay mid-contract.

January 6, 2023 A class and collective action alleges the Wykagyl Country Club in New York has failed to pay caddies proper minimum and overtime wages and later harassed the plaintiff for his complaints.

December 21, 2022 The producer of “Black Spartans” faces a lawsuit that alleges many crew members were not paid for “significant work” performed over the last month of filming.

December 12, 2022 Twitter faces a class action that alleges recent layoffs by the social media platform and owner Elon Musk have disproportionately impacted women.

December 2, 2022 A class action alleges the NCAA and its member schools have unlawfully conspired to fix the wages of certain college baseball coaches at zero, suppressing labor competition.

November 17, 2022 The United States faces a lawsuit that alleges it failed to pay overtime to civilian detailees who temporarily worked for the Office of Refugee Resettlement in March 2021.

November 14, 2022 Eleven of the country’s largest meat processors have conspired to fix and depress the wages paid to employees at red meat processing plants nationwide, a class action alleges.

November 7, 2022 Twitter faces a class action after executing a reportedly rushed and chaotic “mass layoff” of roughly 3,700 employees, approximately half of its workforce, on November 4, 2022.

November 1, 2022 Six Flags Great Adventure faces a class action that alleges workers at the NJ amusement park have been deprived of wages for pre- and post-shift time spent undergoing mandatory security screenings.

October 12, 2022 State Farm faces a proposed class action wherein a former employee alleges she was subjected to racial discrimination and retaliation for challenging the company’s “discriminatory practices.”

October 6, 2022 A lawsuit claims the Blue Ridge Rock Festival failed to fully compensate bartenders and bar backs for work performed during the event in 2021 and 2022.

September 23, 2022 Pollen faces a class action that alleges the destination events company abruptly stopped paying employees last June.

August 17, 2022 A proposed class action lawsuit alleges multilevel marketing company Tori Belle Cosmetics has breached its contracts with independent affiliates.

July 26, 2022 Applebee’s franchisee Thrive Restaurant Group faces a lawsuit that alleges current and former company trainers, called “neighborhood experts,” are owed unpaid wages.

July 26, 2022 A class action alleges Perdue Farms and Perdue Foods, LLC have misclassified certain chicken farmers as independent contractors when they’re actually bona fide employees.

July 18, 2022 Nine plaintiffs allege in a proposed class action that GEO Group has benefited from “forced labor” at two of its civil immigration detention facilities in California.

July 14, 2022 Guardian of Georgia faces a class action that alleges the security company failed to provide at least 60 days’ advance notice prior to a mass layoff in July 2022.

June 30, 2022 A proposed class action lawsuit alleges First Guaranty Mortgage Corporation failed to provide requisite notice when it laid off nearly 80 percent of its workforce in June 2022.

June 7, 2022 Assurant faces a proposed class action lawsuit that alleges Black employees at the insurance company have been subjected to “devastating ongoing racial discrimination.”

May 31, 2022 A proposed collective and class action alleges steakhouse chain Fleming’s has impermissibly taken a “tip credit” against certain tipped workers’ hourly wages.

May 25, 2022 The O’Gara Group faces a class action that alleges the armored vehicle maker violated federal law by failing to provide at least 60 days’ advance notice prior to a mass layoff in March 2022.

May 24, 2022 FedEx has failed to properly pay certain employees who took short-term military leave, a proposed class action claims.

May 24, 2022 A class action alleges Meta Platforms, formerly Facebook, has discriminated against U.S. citizens, green card holders and others by preferring to hire visa-dependent workers who the company can pay less.

April 11, 2022 Broward County, Florida’s Hillsboro Club faces a proposed class action that alleges workers did not receive proper notice upon being terminated at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

March 29, 2022 A class action alleges SMART Alabama and AGWM United have for years “cheated the United States immigration system” to employ Mexican nationals as underpaid auto parts production line workers.

March 21, 2022 A former Google university programs specialist alleges the search engine giant has engaged in a systemic pattern and practice of racial discrimination against African American and Black employees nationwide.

March 3, 2022 A former Peloton Interactive employee alleges the fitness equipment and media company has failed to pay proper minimum and overtime wages in California.

March 3, 2022 A real estate investment trust who owns 16 New York City hotels faces a class action that alleges the company has discriminated against certain employees through the use of criminal history screenings.

February 25, 2022 Envision Healthcare Corp. faces a lawsuit that alleges the medical management company has knowingly failed to pay nurses, doctors and advanced practitioners proper wages.

January 24, 2022 A proposed collective action alleges customer service representatives at Philips North America’s Georgia call center are owed unpaid overtime wages dating back to last year.

January 18, 2022 An Alabama woman alleges in a class action that Walmart has “blatant[ly]” discriminated against female delivery drivers by providing only men’s pants as part of its mandatory work uniform.

January 12, 2022 A class action alleges Major League Baseball and all 30 teams have routinely and openly colluded to restrict and depress the wages and compensation paid to minor league players.

January 4, 2022 A hazard pay lawsuit alleges the U.S. GSA has long known that the Goodfellow Federal Complex in St. Louis was contaminated by cancer-causing agents yet took no action to protect workers or visitors.

December 20, 2021 A proposed class action alleges Bank of America, N.A. has failed to protect prepaid debit cards containing New Jersey residents’ unemployment benefits from fraud.

December 16, 2021 A class action alleges a Raytheon Technologies division and other aerospace firms unlawfully agreed to restrain competition in the labor market in which they compete for employees.

December 14, 2021 Sea World faces a class action over its alleged failure to pay all wages owed to workers laid off at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and not re-hired.

December 7, 2021 A class action alleges Hornblower Cruises & Events violated worker protection laws when it failed to provide at least 60 days’ notice prior to firing its workforce in Aug. 2020.

December 6, 2021 A class action aims to represent individuals who were terminated as part of a mass layoff executed by the Jefferson County Committee for Economic Opportunity without receiving 60 days’ advance notice.

November 30, 2021 A class action claims Old Navy has unlawfully paid hourly workers in New York on a bi-weekly basis instead of every week as required by the state’s labor law.

November 29, 2021 A class action alleges the Maryland Department of Labor has systemically failed to administer unemployment insurance benefits to tens of thousands of state residents.