Wage and Hour

February 23, 2022 A proposed class and collective action claims Overstock.com, Inc. has failed to pay call center employees for off-the-clock work.

February 17, 2022 A proposed class and collective action alleges Insomnia Cookies, Krispy Kreme Inc. and their CEO have violated federal and state labor laws.

February 17, 2022 A lawsuit claims the operator of Slim Chickens, Dunkin’, Arby’s and Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers franchises violated federal and state labor laws.

February 15, 2022 Barton Associates faces a class action that claims the healthcare staffing provider has deprived workers of overtime wages by misclassifying them as independent contractors.

February 15, 2022 Target Corporation has violated the New York Labor Law by paying manual workers bi-weekly instead of every week, a proposed class action alleges.

February 11, 2022 American Airlines faces a collective action in which an employee claims he and other hourly workers were not properly paid for required training sessions.

February 9, 2022 A lawsuit claims New York Panera employees have not been properly paid as a result of the restaurant’s practice of “shaving” time off of workers’ weekly hours.

February 8, 2022 A former Burlington Coat Factory assistant store manager claims she and similarly situated workers were not paid proper overtime wages.

February 2, 2022 A lawsuit alleges Med-Call and its chief operating officer have unlawfully refused to pay nurses for time spent traveling to COVID-19 vaccination sites.

February 1, 2022 Two former Williams-Sonoma employees claim they were not paid for their last week of work at the home retailer’s Olive Branch, Mississippi distribution center.

January 27, 2022 A lawsuit claims the MTA have failed to pay certain employees any overtime wages since their payroll administrator was crippled by a December 2021 data breach.

January 26, 2022 A proposed class action claims Party City Corporation has failed to pay New York employees as often as required under state law.

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 21, 2022 A former production assistant claims Amazon has failed to reimburse employees for expenses related to the use of their personal phones for business purposes.

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 18, 2022 A lawsuit claims federal contractor Ahtna failed to pay employees for time spent undergoing security screenings and for work performed during lunch breaks.

January 14, 2022 Penske Truck Leasing Co. and Penske Truck Leasing Corporation face a proposed collective action that claims they failed to pay employees proper overtime wages.

January 13, 2022 A wave of class actions alleges a cadre of major players in the aerospace engineering industry illegally agreed over nearly a decade to not hire each other’s skilled workers.

January 13, 2022 A proposed class action lawsuit claims Allegheny General Hospital underpaid certain employees after a payroll vendor was compromised in a late-2021 data breach.

January 13, 2022 Miami law firm Serving Immigrants faces a collective action in which two former employees claim they and other workers are owed unpaid minimum and overtime wages.

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 12, 2022 Ten former Queens, New York H Mart employees claim workers were required to put in more than 40 hours per week without being paid proper overtime wages.

January 11, 2022 A Bimbo Bakeries driver claims the bakery product manufacturer has unlawfully reduced or withheld workers’ wages by unfairly charging them for unsold products.

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 20, 2021 A lawsuit claims Sirius and Pandora have failed to properly reimburse employee business expenses and provide complete wage statements.

December 17, 2021 A New Jersey Lyft driver claims the rideshare company has failed to both reimburse drivers for business expenses and pay proper overtime wages.

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 16, 2021 A lawsuit claims Warner Bros. failed to pay employees timely and complete wages and provide meal breaks in accordance with federal and California law.

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.

November 24, 2021 Petco faces a proposed collective and class action that claims the pet supply store has failed to pay employees for every hour worked.

November 24, 2021 A lawsuit claims Albertsons failed to include the extra hazard pay workers received during the COVID-19 pandemic as part of their time-and-a-half overtime rates.

November 23, 2021 Boston Market Corp. has violated the New York Labor Law by paying manual workers on a bi-weekly basis instead of every week, a proposed class action claims.

November 23, 2021 Workers at Outback Steakhouse and Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar were not paid proper wages due to the misapplication of a tip credit, two lawsuits claim.

November 23, 2021 A class action alleges Sony Interactive Entertainment has failed to pay employees who are female, or who identify as female, equally to males who perform substantially similar work.

November 18, 2021 A class action claims Verizon Connect has required inside sales reps to work significant amounts of hours off the clock and without being properly paid.

November 17, 2021 A class action alleges the Salvation Army has coerced vulnerable Adult Rehabilitation Center participants into working at its thrift stores under threat of harm, including incarceration and reputational and financial damage.

November 15, 2021 U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services and the Dept. of Homeland Security face a class action wherein asylum-seekers allege they’ve lost or will soon lose out on jobs due to unreasonable work authorization delays.

November 15, 2021 A class action claims Amazon has failed to pay Pennsylvania warehouse workers for time spent undergoing mandatory security screenings as required under state law.

November 11, 2021 A class action alleges that an “old boys’ club” culture exists at UPS wherein female employees, especially those over the age of 40, routinely face systemic age and gender discrimination.

November 10, 2021 A lawsuit claims DoorDash has failed to properly pay drivers for every hour worked, much less the “high” hourly wages promised in job advertisements.

November 5, 2021 A lawsuit alleges Banana Republic workers should have been paid weekly instead of bi-weekly in accordance with New York law.

November 4, 2021 A class action alleges Knight Transportation unlawfully failed to provide drivers with proper meal and rest breaks and owes them unpaid wages and other payments.

November 4, 2021 A lawsuit claims the operator of numerous Papa John’s stores failed to properly reimburse delivery drivers for expenses associated with using their personal vehicles.

November 1, 2021 The owner and operator of a number of Alaska Papa John’s franchises has allegedly paid delivery drivers less than the federal hourly minimum wage.

October 29, 2021 A class action alleges Flowers Foods and Derst Baking Company have misclassified distributors as independent contractors and denied them proper overtime wages.