WASHINGTON D.C. — A group of six current and former employees for popular Washington, D.C. restaurant Founding Farmers recently filed an unpaid overtime lawsuit against the owners of the business over allegations that the company failed to pay workers for all their hours spent on the job at multiple restaurants owned by the defendant.
WASHINGTON D.C. — A federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of the Northern Marianas Islands recently ordered a Hong Kong-based casino company operating in U.S. territory to pay the Department of Labor $190,000 in restitution for withholding overtime wages from workers.
D.C. — The Whitehouse recently issued a freeze order on the former administration’s proposed expansion to the nation’s overtime and labor laws that would have essentially doubled the overtime threshold for salaried employees.
SEATTLE — A pair of former dairy farm workers for Washington-based DeRuyter Brothers Dairy recently filed a class action unpaid overtime lawsuit aimed not only at recouping unpaid time and a half wages but also overturning a long held state law.
SEATTLE — Seattle-based online real estate company Zillow recently announced that it reached a final settlement with a group of former workers over allegations that the firm failed to pay overtime wages and even went so far as to pressure sales staff to skip lunch breaks.
SEATTLE — A group of delivery drivers contracted to work for Amazon recently filed suit against the online retail giant claiming the defendant should be considered a joint employer and therefore responsible for paying out overtime wages and other benefits.