On November 4, 2009, Priority Banking Officers working for Union Bank filed this employment lawsuit in the California Superior Court for Orange County, alleging that Union Bank improperly classified the Priority Banking Offices as banking and financial industry employees based on fancy job titles and not the actual job duties that the banking employees performed on a day to day basis... READ MORE
aytheon is one of the biggest defense technology developers in the World. This employment lawsuit was filed against the defense technology giant on behalf of employees paid on an hourly, alleging that Raytheon violated state wage and hour laws... READ MORE
The realty company employs at any time fifty (50) to one-hundred (100) Sales Representatives and Sales Agents as part of the real estate company's vacation ownership team. The Sales Representatives have the primary job duty to sell timeshare properties at resorts in California. According to the complaint, were improperly classified by the realty company as independent contractors because in reality they were regular employees and working members of the realty company's vacation ownership team... READ MORE
Ecolab is a global developer and marketer of premium cleaning, sanitizing, pest elimination, maintenance and repair products and services for the world's hospitality, institutional and industrial markets. On November 2, 2010, this employment lawsuit was filed in the Southern District of California alleging that Ecolab intentionally misclassified maintenance workers as exempt from overtime laws in order to avoid paying them overtime compensation. As part of Ecolab's business, the company employs individuals whose primary job duty is repairing and providing maintenance on leased commercial machines of Ecolab. These employees have the job titles of "Route Manager," "Route Sales Manager," "Sales Route Specialist," "Service Installer" and "Service Professional"... READ MORE
Schering-Plough was acquired by Merck Pharmaceuticals which is one of the seven largest pharmaceutical companies in the world both by market capitalization and revenue. Schering-Plough discovers, manufacturers and markets a broad range of innovative healthcare products including vaccines, prescription products, consumer products, biologic products and animal health products. As part of the pharmaceutical company's business, Schering-Plough employs individuals whose primary job duty is promoting pharmaceutical healthcare products. These employees distribute free samples of Schering-Plough's products to physicians and encourage physicians to prescribe Schering-Plough's products to patients in order to stimulate the sales of these products... READ MORE
According to the complaint in this employment lawsuit, the employees working for International paper had earned and accrued vested vacation and holiday time on the date of their employment termination pursuant to International Paper's vacation time policy. However, the vacation pay lawsuit alleges that International Company secretly deleted certain vested vacation and holiday time as compensable in order to try to cheat the employees out of the full amount of vacation pay they were entitled to upon termination of employment... READ MORE
In this Orange County employment lawsuit filed by Blumenthal, Nordrehaug & Bhowmik on behalf of claims reps, the claims reps contend that they are entitled to overtime pay under state labor laws because the "primary job duties of Claims Representative Employees primarily consist of the routine clerical work in the handling and processing of claims according to AIG's pre- established protocols and guidelines." According to the complaint, as part of this work, "AIG's Claims Representative Employees fill out paper work, make telephone calls to physicians and clients, process treatment authorizations, sort mail, and process claims acceptance and denials as specified by AIG, according to pre-established guidelines and procedures... READ MORE
According to the complaint in this Orange County employment lawsuit filed by Blumenthal, Nordrehaug & Bhowmik against Lawyer's Title, the title company violated the rights of the employees under California law by breaching their employment contracts, violating the California Labor Code and committing unlawful, unfair and deceptive business practices in violation of the UCL... READ MORE
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. is one of the seven largest pharmaceutical companies in the world both by market capitalization and revenue. Merck pharmaceuticals discovers, manufacturers and markets a broad range of innovative healthcare products including vaccines, prescription products, consumer products, biologic products and animal health products. As part of the pharmaceutical company's business, Merck employs individuals whose primary job duty is promoting pharmaceutical healthcare products. These employees distribute free samples of Merck's products to physicians and encourage physicians to prescribe Merck's products to patients in order to stimulate the sales of these products... READ MORE
In order to manage and operate Marriott hotels, Marriott has restaurants located within its hotels. As part of the production side of Marriott's business, the hotel company employs a fleet of cooks and food preparers to work in the kitchens of the restaurants located in the hotels. These kitchen employees have the job titles of "Sous Chef," "Senior Sous Chef," and "Banquet Chef"... READ MORE
Production operators filed this Santa Clara employment lawsuit against NEC Electronics for allegedly violating state labor laws with respect to wages and hours. This action arises from the overtime pay and rest and meal period policies and practices of NEC that Production operators contend violate the requirements of the California Labor Code and California Industrial Welfare Commission ("IWC") Wage Orders... READ MORE
According to the complaint in this employment lawsuit, the offices of the Administrative Services Supervisors operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The work schedule for Administrative Services Supervisors involves working regularly overtime hours, approximately 7-8 overtime hours per week, for which overtime hours the Administrative Services Supervisors do not receive additional compensation. In addition, as a result of their rigorous work schedule, the Administrative Services Supervisors were often unable to take meal or rest breaks... READ MORE
Sales Representatives, Account Managers and Account Executive employed by 8x8 filed this lawsuit against the voice over IP Company, alleging that the phone company violated California labor laws. Specifically, the sales employees allege that they were not paid overtime compensation despite the fact that they do not meet any exemptions from state wage and hour laws based on their job duties... READ MORE
Technicians filed this employment lawsuit in the Southern District of California alleging that Ikon Solutions violated state labor laws with respect to paying the employees overtime wages. The technicians primarily perform manual labor associated with the installation, repair and maintenance of copiers at locations specified by the solutions company. Specifically, installation technicians were responsible for receiving instructions, reviewing repair procedures and ordering parts, driving to the specified location, performing billing procedures, installing, repairing and maintaining copiers by cleaning, diagnosing, lifting, assembling and repairing the copiers, and performing troubleshooting of the customer's problems... READ MORE
This employment lawsuit was originally filed in the Southern District of California by banking employees working for Bank of America with the job titles "Teller", "Senior Teller" and "Sales Service Specialist." These banking employees are primarily responsible for running the day to day clerical labor to operate each banking location. These employees open the bank, close the bank, count money, operate the teller cashier windows and handle the walk-in customers' banking needs. All of these job duties are non-exempt job duties, which means that these financial industry employees are entitled to be paid on an hourly basis... READ MORE
The employment law case seeks monetary compensation for employees who performed work as a Sales Support Specialist at Pelican Products in California. The employment Litigation was filed on July 28, 2008 in the Southern District of California... READ MORE
California-based Title Officers filed this employment lawsuit in Orange County for alleged wage and hour violations committed by First America Title Company. The primary claims in this Orange County lawsuit involve overtime compensation violations (a!leging that title officers were misclassified as exempt), labor law meal break violations, and statutory penalty and unfair business practice claims for state labor law violations... READ MORE
This employment law case was filed in the Southern District of California for alleged violations of California overtime laws. The Computer Software Testers claim that they were not compensated proper overtime wages under state labor laws and the Fair Labor Standards Act... READ MORE
On October 4, 2007, Valerie Stringer filed this class action lawsuit in Alameda Superior Court entitled Valerie Stringer v. Kaiser Permanente, et. a!., Case No. RG 07349734. Stinger alleged wage and hour claims on behalf of an alleged class of Product Specialists and BACs. On November 13, 2007, Plaintiffs Mark Steele, Dan Royse, Julie Teague, and lerahmeel Capistrano filed a similar complaint on behalf of the same alleged in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California entitled Mark Steele v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., Case No. 3:07-cv- 05743... READ MORE
Single copy rack collector and newspaper delivery employees filed the amended complaint in this class action lawsuit against the newspaper company on July 8, 2010 in the Superior Court for the County of San Diego... READ MORE
Macy's West Stores is one of the nation's premier retailers, operating about 810 department stores and furniture galleries throughout the United States. To protect its assets and improve profitability at all of its retail department stores throughout California, the department store hires individuals with the titles "Loss Prevention Manager," "LossPrevention Agent," "Loss Prevention Opener/Closer," "Senior Agent," "Loss Prevention SecurityAssociate," "Loss Prevention Security Agent," "Director of Loss Prevention," "Assistant LossPrevention Supervisor," and "Store Staff Investigator"... READ MORE
On April 19, 2007, site attendants working for the recycling company Contain-A-Way filed this employment law case in San Diego as Civil Action No. 37-2007-00065322. The overtime lawsuit was eventually moved to federal court in the Southern District of California... READ MORE
Styles for Less operates a chain of specialty junior and women's retail clothing stores and an Internet website which sell a wide range of apparel and accessories throughout California, Arizona, Nevada, and Florida. The clothing company offers clothes for school, athletic, career, and casual wear as well as accessories, including jewelry, sun glasses, belts, hats, scarves, handbags, shoes and boots... READ MORE
Enterprise Rent-A-Car is one of the largest car rental and vehicle leasing companies in the United States providing fleet management, used car sales, vanpool, and commercial truck rental services. To assist in maintaining superior operations management at all locations throughout California, Enterprise retains Management Assistants who begin their careers with Enterprise as Management Trainees... READ MORE
These freighting transportation account managers and supervisors filed this employment lawsuit contending that they were improperly classified as exempt from overtime pay under California law and the Fair Labor Standards Act because their primary job duties involve following strict guidelines and protocols while they (i) taking customer orders, (ii) locating shipping companies (iii) providing rate quotes, (iv) coordinating freight pickup and delivery (v) monitoring shipments, (vi) collecting accounts receivable, and (vii) entering data into CH Robinson's computer system...READ MORE
The Systems Engineers and IT Analysts allege that because their primary job duty is to operate and maintain computer programs and systems according to the consulting company's strict guidelines and protocols, they do not meet the test for the exemption from overtime pay for computer employees. As a result, the complaint alleges that the consulting company committed violation of state labor laws by failing to pay the computer employees overtime compensation in violation of California Labor Code §§ 510, 515.5, 551, 552, 1194 and 1998 and by failing to give the computer professionals itemized accurate wage statements in violation of California Labor Code § 226...READ MORE
Former employees of Home Depot filed this employment lawsuit alleging that Home Depot does not have an adequate system for tracking the number of vacation hours they take. Therefore, these employees allege that when their employment with Home Depot terminated, they were not paid for all of the vacation pay they had accrued throughout their employment with Home Depot... READ MORE
Pepsi sells Pepsi products to chain food stores, supercenters, mass merchandisers, chain drug stores, club stores, and military bases, as well as small independently owned shops and foodservice businesses. Pepsi markets its products primarily through direct store delivery or third-party distribution, such as foodservice and vending distribution networks. This case was filed on behalf of floor shift supervisors at the next to the bottom rung of Pepsi's production matrix. Each shift supervisor supervises a segment of a shift of the cold beverage production/product availability work at one of Pepsi's many facilities located in California. The only workers at these facilities preforming more menial tasks than the shift supervisors are the production line/product availability laborers themselves. A high school education is all that is required to become a floor shift supervisor... READ MORE
Filed on 28, 2009 in the Southern District of California, this employment lawsuit alleges that Arthur J. Gallagher failed to pay proper overtime compensation to Claims Representatives and/or Senior Claims Representatives who processed Worker's Compensation Claims in the State of California. The three (3) major operating segments of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. are referred to as Brokerage, Risk Management and Financial Services. AJG does not offer or sell workers compensation insurance. The WC Claims Reps who are the subject of this Lawsuits are employed within the Risk Management operating segment of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., which is a third party claims adjusting operation...READ MORE
North American Title Company's business involves the providing of real estate settlement services to customers. In order to provide these services, the title company employs a staff of sales representatives who market the title company's services to customers and businesses. The title company compensates these sales employees, in whole or in part, through the payment of commissions... READ MORE
The amended complaint in this case was filed in Alameda County on February 25, 2010 on behalf of sales representatives who market and sell the title company's services and products to consumers and businesses in California. Old Republic Title Company's business involves the providing of real estate settlement services to customers. In order to provide these services, the title company employs a staff of sales representatives who market the title company's services to customers and businesses. The title company compensates these sales employees, in whole or in part, through the payment of commissions... READ MORE
Qualxserv is a Delaware company engaged in technology deployment and field maintenance service for leading technology partners. QualxServ is an authorized service training partner for: Apple iMac, eMAC, Power Mac and Xserve products, Canon Printers and Multi-Function Copiers, Dell Client and Enterprise products, EMC storage subsystems Hughes Network Systems satellite communication equipment, IBM Sony Client & Consumer Electronics, and Vanguard communication equipment. The product Qualxserv provides to clients is warranty service for computer technology providers, along with on-site services and desk side support, and also provides installation and service for televisions and other consumer electronics. Qualxserv's products are delivered by Technicians... READ MORE
LivHome is the nation's largest professionally led at-home service provider for senior citizens. Formed in 1999, LivHome provides at-home general housekeeping services, with the objective of enabling seniors to continue living in their own homes for as long as possible. These services are dependent upon the work performed by the Caregivers employed by Livhome. The typical services that are provided by the Caregivers to the clients are cooking and serving meals, performance of errands, home maintenance, housekeeping, mail organization, making appointments for the client, pet care, home deliveries, laundry, bathing, showering, grooming, dressing, toileting, exercising, physical therapy, ambulation, and medication reminders. As a result, the Caregivers essentially take care of every domestic need of the client... READ MORE
Store managers and salespersons filed this employment lawsuit against Ortho Mattress, alleging that the mattress company committed labor law violations against Salespersons and Store Managers in California. The primary job duties of both the Salespersons and Store Managers at Ortho Mattress are to sell mattresses to the public. The only difference between the two (2) positions is that the Store Managers are eligible to receive an additional bonus that is based on the overall performance of the store in which they work. The store managers and sales reps are subject to the same corporate policies regarding wage statements, meal breaks and mileage expenses... READ MORE
Costar Realty Information, Inc. purports to be the number one provider of information, marketing and analytic services to commercial real estate professionals in the United States. The revenues for CoStar are approximately $200 million annually, and Forbes reports that CoStar has $213 million in cash. As part of the database of commercial real estate information, CoStar employs a fleet of employees whose primary job duties are to gather the commercial real estate information and input the information into the database. During the period applicable to this action, CoStar referred to these employees initially as "Research Analysts," and currently as "Research Associates." CoStar also attaches descriptors such as "senior" or numbers such as "I" or "II" to the titles job to indicate seniority, however, all such employees, regardless of the additional descriptor perform the same primary job duties... READ MORE
This employment lawsuit was filed in the Southern District of California on July 31, 2009 against Lockheed Martin. This action focuses on whether Information Technology workers employed by the defense company were properly treated as exempt from California overtime laws and the Fair Labor Standards Act. As part of the technology business, Lockheed Martin employs a fleet of IT personnel whose primary job duties are to perform troubleshooting of servers and maintenance of multi-user computer systems, which includes tasks like setting up administrator and service accounts, maintaining system documentation, tuning system performance, installing system wide software, allocating mass storage space, performing upgrades, and handling help-desk tickets. These Information Technology personnel perform work for Lockheed Martin and its Clients, such as the United States military... READ MORE
To maintain the security of the sensitive and classified information that is used to create classified products and weapons for the government, Lockheed Martin must ensure that all such information is processed in accordance with all applicable government rules and regulations... READ MORE
This employment lawsuit was filed in Santa Clara County by Blumenthal, Nordrehaug & Bhowmik and the Law Offices of Jacob Sider against SJB Child Development Centers, alleging that the child development center violated state labor laws involving wrongful termination in violation of public policy and quid pro quo sexual harassment... READ MORE
Blumenthal, Nordrehaug & Bhowmik and the Law Offices of Jacob Sider filed this employment lawsuit in San Mateo County against Susan Wolf, alleging that the dermatologist committed discriminatory acts by terminating an employee based on discrimination... READ MORE
WDC Exploration & Wells is one of the largest privately owned full service drilling companies in the United States with its headquarters in Woodland, California and operations throughout the West, Midwest and Southwest. The drilling company serves the water supply, environmental, geotechnical, mining, energy, and construction industries by providing well installation, soil sampling and rock coring, well abandonment, depth discreet water sampling, conductor casing installation, and well development services. To perform these intricate drilling services, the drilling company retains "Drilling Operators" and "Drilling Helpers" who are responsible and required to carry out the company's regional operations... READ MORE
According to the complaint filed in this overtime lawsuit, in the course of their employment with Stewart Title, "Title Officers, Title Assistants and Escrow Officers have worked more than eight (8) hours a day and more than forty (40) hours a week." As a result of Stewart Title's rigorous demands, the Title Officers were allegedly also often unable to take meal breaks in violation of state labor law break rules... READ MORE