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Category: Employee Rights

08/22/2019
by Bailey Cowan Heckaman

A case recently handled by our legal team has been profiled in a feature article on Law360. As the article notes, BCH – which served as co-lead counsel for the plaintiffs – helped secure a $14.5M recovery for hundreds of security dog handlers who ...

08/07/2019
by Bailey Cowan Heckaman

A Thai restaurant in Pleasanton, California has been ordered to pay $170,000 to its employees after federal regulators determined it violated overtime laws. The findings came from an investigation helmed by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and H ...

04/16/2019
by Bailey Cowan Heckaman

Ardent Companies Inc. has agreed to pay $2.325 million to settle a class action lawsuit filed by oil platform workers who claimed they weren’t paid for on-call time after the end of their daily shifts. The class action settlement against the ExxonM ...

04/09/2019
by Bailey Cowan Heckaman

Wage and overtime claims have become increasingly more common in many states across the U.S., prompting employers to perform their due diligence when calculating overtime pay for their workers. The need for compliance has been promoted by additional ...

12/14/2017
by Bailey Cowan Heckaman

JPMorgan Chase & Co. agreed to a $16.7 million settlement with a group of assistant branch managers who filed a lawsuit stating that the banking giant had misclassified them as overtime-exempt employees. The putative classes claiming violations o ...

11/27/2017
by Bailey Cowan Heckaman

Attorneys representing Jefferson County told a Texas appeals court to drop the lawsuit brought by the widow of James Farris, a former judge who died of mesothelioma reportedly caused by the asbestos that filled the courthouse he spent his career work ...

11/08/2017
by Bailey Cowan Heckaman

Wyndham Vacation Resorts Inc. asked a Wisconsin federal judge to approve a $1.5 million settlement with their employer over wage disputes. In their lawsuit, the employees claimed that the time-share developer required its employees to work off the cl ...

10/16/2017
by Bailey Cowan Heckaman

A California federal judge recently approved a $2.75 million settlement between AT&T and a class of corporate training managers who alleged that the multi-billion dollar company misclassified them as independent contractors and failed to pay them ...

10/03/2017
by Bailey Cowan Heckaman

The Washington State Department of Labor & Industries announced that rental car companies Thrifty and Hertz have agreed to pay nearly $2 million in back pay owed to their workers in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport under the city’s increase ...

09/14/2017
by Bailey Cowan Heckaman

Rock-Tenn Co. was granted preliminary approval on an $8.5 million deal to resolve a class action that claimed the paper and packaging company deprived over 800 of their factory workers overtime, wages, and proper breaks. Los Angeles Superior Court Ju ...

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