On August 31, 2011, Riggan Law Firm, LLC, a St. Louis employment law firm, working in connection with Weinhaus & Potashnick, filed a wrongful termination lawsuit on behalf of its client, Albert Dees, against The Hayman Company, a Michigan-based property managent company that manages the University Heights apartment building in St. Louis. In the lawsuit, Mr. Dees, a […]

In mid-August, 2011, a federal judge in Florida approved a settlement between Starbucks and a group of 553 of its store managers. This settlement resolves three-year legal battle over the store managers’ unpaid overtime claims. As noted elsewhere on this blog, the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) requires that most employees be paid at least the federal minimum wage for

A recent lawsuit alleges that the automotive parts retailer AutoZone terminated one of its employees for participating in a class action overtime suit against the company. In mid-August, a class of AutoZone store managers suing AutoZone for unpaid overtime asked a federal judge in Arizona to force the company to rehire Volena Glover-Hale, an Autozone store

Recently, fitness managers and sales counselors employed by the health club 24 Hour Fitness filed two lawsuits (first lawsuit; second lawsuit) against the company alleging violations of federal overtime law. According to the lawsuits, while the employees routinely worked more than forty hours a week, they were only paid for forty hours of work per week.

Earlier this month, two security guards employed by Sterling Mets, L.P., the owners/operators of Shea Stadium/Citi Field, filed a lawsuit alleging violations of federal and state overtime laws. According to allegations in the lawsuit, the security guards often worked over forty hours a week but, in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act, did not receive

Last month, a federal judge in California approved a settlement between Aon Corporation and over 500 of its current and former employees. This settlement resolved a class action wage and hour lawsuit initially filed in September of 2007 by one of Aon’s employees. The initial suit alleged multiple violations of minimum wage and overtime laws. According to the

A Judge in California recently approved a $2.7 million settlement between Rent-A-Center–the largest rent-to-own company in the U.S.–and 2,600 of its store managers. The settlement, which received preliminary approval three months ago, ends a lawsuit which began in late 2010 by Rent-A-Center employees alleging multiple violations of California labor law. One of the major legal violations

Recently, a federal judge in California approved a settlement between Burlington Coat Factory and hundreds of its current and former employees. This settlement resolves a class action suit initially filed in September of 2009 by assistant store managers who worked at Burlington. The initial suit alleged multiple violations of federal and state minimum wage and overtime

Recently, a Florida federal judge dismissed a portion of Lilli Morse’s lawsuit against international finance company JP Morgan Chase & Co. In her lawsuit, Ms. Morse alleged that J.P. Morgan failed to pay her overtime wages and fired her when she complained about this on her Facebook page. While the judge allowed the part of