Monday, April 16, 2012

Overtime pay lawsuits

  • Monday, the justices will hear oral arguments in a class-action lawsuit against drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline.
  • (Indianapolis Star)
  • The uptick in lawsuits may be a sign that the job market is starting All hourly workers are entitled to overtime pay for working longer than 40 hours per week, according to the Fair Labor Standards Act.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Fresno, CA: A sustained ignoring of overtime pay laws by a growing number of employers keeps the courts percolating with unpaid overtime claims, as workers and their representatives fight for their rights under California overtime law.
  • (Lawyers and Settlements)
  • Lawsuits against employers by employees increased 32 percent improperly classified them as exempt from receiving overtime pay, and used technology to make them work during their time away from the office.
  • (Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog))
  • Glaxo maintains that its representatives are exempt from receiving overtime pay because of the outside salesperson exemption. Other pharmaceutical companies have a similar viewpoint.
  • (Legal News Line)
  • The lawsuit claims the workers were denied overtime pay totaling about $100,000 between 2009 and 2011. Kimchi Bui from the U.S.
  • (NBC Los Angeles)
  • Their employer, 4M Youth Services, had required attendance at pre-shift safety meetings but did not pay the officers for that time.
  • (nola.com)
  • Mulqueen said that the assistant principal was "finished" and did not qualify for overtime pay because he had "more money than God," the lawsuit states.
  • (New York Daily News)
  • I dont think he can talk to the dead. Ziscand claims to have worked 60-hour weeks at the Arthur Murray Dance Studio in Plainview, N.Y. -- without either overtime pay or promised commissions.
  • (myfoxny.com)
  • The lawsuit seeks an injunction preventing the city from making unilateral changes that violate the Fire and Police Employee Relations Act.
  • (Firehouse.com)

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