PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Dick’s Sporting Goods is facing a class action lawsuit from 18 assistant store managers in 14 states related to overtime payments.
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The assistant managers say the company classified them as “exempt” from overtime; however, they claim state and federal laws do not.
In a statement, attorney Gregg I. Shavitz, from the firm that filed the suit, said, “Dick’s Sporting Goods settled a similar overtime lawsuit for assistant store managers nationally for $10 million in 2016. The lawsuit claims Assistant Store Managers continue to work long uncompensated overtime hours.”
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Federal lawsuit accuses Bexar County of refusing to pay military services employees overtime
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SAN ANTONIO – A lawsuit filed in federal court accuses Bexar County officials of misclassifying employees in its Military and Veterans Services office then refusing to pay them years of overtime wages.
The suit, filed April 9 and brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act, claims that Veterans Affairs claims counselors working for the county routinely worked more than 40 hours per week and were not compensated for those extra hours.
The suit was filed by Moses Lozano, a former VA claims counselor for the county, and claims that he is one of five employees who were misclassified.
Labor attorney looking into crew chiefs being paid overtime for lunch | Orchard Park Bee
As a result of the coronavirus, the Town Board has been asking every town department — sans police — to have overtime authorized by Supervisor Patrick Keem due to the budget issues the municipality is facing because of the crisis.
Recently, the Town Board noticed overtime coming out of the Highway and Sewer, Water and Lighting departments. A further examination by Keem revealed that four crew chiefs — three in highway and one in sewer, water and lighting — are getting a half-hour each day of overtime to eat lunch.
Connecticut mental health employees tripled their pay with overtime earnings, according to audit
"We judgmentally selected 18 employees from units paying the highest amounts of overtime for review, noting excessive work days for 17 of the employees, who worked between 12 and 137 consecutive days," the auditors wrote. "As a result of the consecutive work days, we performed an analysis of annual earnings for the 18 employees, noting that 13 earned 2 to 3 times their base salaries in overtime during at least one of the two fiscal years reviewed."
The report also found that some housekeeping and maintenance employees would take leave time during regularly scheduled work hours "while subsequently working significant overtime on nights and weekends."
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Case: Wage & Hour/Overtime (9th Cir.)
A federal district court in California properly dismissed the California Labor Code overtime and minimum wage claims of two employees of the Regis Corporation after giving them an opportunity to amend their complaint. The court found that they failed to allege a workweek in which either of them worked more than forty hours and weren't paid overtime for those excess hours worked, or weren't paid minimum wages.
Dick's Sporting Goods Faces New Proposed Class Suit for Overtime
Two assistant store managers in Ohio and New Jersey say Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. has consistently cheated them and at least 100 others out of overtime pay, according to federal court filings.
Megan Juric and Justine Stuhl sued Dick's under the Fair Labor Standards Act and Ohio and New Jersey wage laws, seeking to represent other similarly situated managers in a nationwide collective and two state class actions.
Dick's has a "widespread, repeated, and consistent" practice of misclassifiying managers as exempt from overtime requirements, and failing to pay premium wages when they work more than 40 hours per week, according...
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Uber and Lyft face worker misclassification lawsuit from CA Attorney General and city attorneys
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, along with city attorneys from Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco, filed a lawsuit asserting Uber and Lyft gain an unfair and unlawful competitive advantage by misclassifying workers as independent contractors.
“American taxpayers end up having to help carry the load that Uber and Lyft don’t want to accept,” Becerra said. “These companies will take the workers’ labor, but they won’t accept the worker protections.”
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