In mid-September, 2011, a federal judge in Illinois granted class certification to 200 Kraft Foods employees suing the company for violations of Illinois wage and hour law. The lawsuit was filed in early 2010. The plaintiff employees claim that Kraft’s policy of not paying them for the time they spent putting on and taking off protective equipment […]

In mid-September, 2011, a federal court in Missouri granted conditional class certification in a lawsuit brought on behalf of all delivery drivers who have been employed by Papa John’s Pizza in the past three years. The suit alleges that Papa John’s did not pay its delivery drivers in accordance with federal and state minimum wage laws. In their

On September 27, 2011, Riggan Law Firm, LLC , a St. Louis overtime law firm, on behalf of its client, filed an overtime lawsuit against the St. Louis branch office of New Horizons Computer Learning Center. According to New Horizons’ website, it is the world’s largest independent IT training provider, with over 300 training centers in

On September 8, 2011, four tennis umpires brought suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Their lawsuit accuses the United States Tennis Association (“USTA”) of violation of federal and state overtime laws. The suit alleges that the USTA deprived umpires of overtime pay for their work officiating tennis matches during

Recently, two employees of Circle K Stores, Inc. filed a collective action lawsuit against the company. The employees are seeking recovery of unpaid overtime wages plus interest, along with liquidated damages, court costs, and attorney’s fees. The lawsuit alleges that the employees regularly worked as many as 55 hours per week, but were not properly compensated for

Recently, Marsh & McLennan agreed to settle a class action lawsuit originally filed in March of 2010 by a group of Marsh & McLennan’s benefit consulting and actuarial analysts. The original lawsuit alleged that Marsh & McLennan had violated federal wage and hour laws by failing to pay their analysts overtime. (The Fair Labor Standards Actrequires that employees be

On September 19, 2011, Riggan Law Firm, LLC, a St. Louis overtime law firm, working in connection with Sowers & Wolf, LLC, filed a class action lawsuit against Natoli Engineering Company, which is a St. Louis-based company that manufactures and sells tablet compression products and services to pharmaceutical, nutritional, confectionary, industries and veterinary industries. To read a copy

In August 2010, former State Farm employee Lisa Nobles sued State Farm for allegedly violating the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). Ms. Nobles, formerly a State Farm claims processor, asserts that she and other State Farm employees did not receive overtime compensation required by law. Recently, a federal judge in Missouri denied State Farm’s Motion for Summary Judgment. Thus, this case

MetLife recently reached a settlement in a case where a group of its mortgage underwriters sued in Pennsylvania to recover unpaid overtime compensation. The $2 million settlement will resolve a dispute that began in October of 2010. As noted elsewhere on this blog, the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) requires that most–but not all–employees be paid at