Posts tagged overtime

• Parkland Hospital Sued for Unpaid Overtime

  RLF Staff | March 14, 2008 9:05 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Claiming she and other nurses had not been paid overtime for work done over the course of three years, Carrolton-resident Angela Valcho has filed a lawsuit against Parkland Health & Hospital System. As an hourly employee, a 30-minute lunch was automatically deducted when clocking in and out of the payroll system. According to her attorney, Alan Crone, Valcho claims there were several days when...

• Overtime Recordkeeping

  Jeremi Young | June 06, 2006 4:26 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Many employers will tell employees that overtime will not be paid without the permission of a supervisor.However, supervisors then give employees too much work to be completed in a 40-hour week, which requires the employee to work longer to avoid disappointing his/her supervisor. Then if the employee submits the time worked, it is refused because it was not approved. This is not legal.The...

• Carnival Cruise Lines Settles Unpaid Overtime Lawsuit

  Robert Wolf | May 08, 2006 4:31 PM | 3 CommentsDallas, TX Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  From a honeymooner going overboard to alleged medical malpractice (update: not to mention the filing of Princess cruise lawsuits), it has not been a banner year for public relations of cruise lines. To add to the growing list of bad PR, Carnival Cruise Lines will pay $6.25 million to thousands of current and former crew members who alleged in federal lawsuits they were not paid enough overtime,...

• Employee or Contractor Under Overtime Laws

  Jeremi Young | May 03, 2006 10:31 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Are you treated as an independent contractor by the company you work for? If so, you should take a closer look at whether you are being legally treated that way.Many company's tell workers they are "independent contractors" in order to avoid the obligations tha come with employment. However, the mere fact that taxes are not withheld from your check does not mean you are properly classified as...

• Dollar Financial Settles Overtime Suits

  Jeremi Young | April 27, 2006 8:05 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Financial services company Dollar Financial Corp. has agreed to pay up to $5.8 million dollars to settle three class action lawsuits filed by former employees.The suit alleged that Dollar misclassified certain of it store managers as exempt under wage and hour laws in California. The Plaintiffs also claimed dollar used an improper profit-sharing formula in computing bonuses paid to store managers.

• Family Dollar Hit With $33.2M Penalty in Overtime Pay Suit

  Clint Gilbert | April 05, 2006 12:13 PM | 2 CommentsDallas, TX Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  A jury last month ruled that discount chain Family Dollar owed $19.1 million for systematically classifying some employees as "salaried managers," thus making them ineligible for overtime pay. A federal judge in Alabama has now increased the award to $33.2 million.The increased award comes after the court found that Family Dollar knew it was violating employment laws when they sat up the...

• Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants Entitled to Overtime Pay

  Jeremi Young | March 28, 2006 4:34 PM | 3 CommentsDallas, TX Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  The Fifth Circuit court of Appeals has ruled that Nurse Practitioners ("NPs") and Physician Assistants ("PAs") who are paid on an hourly basis are entitled to overtime compensation for hours worked over 40 in a workweek.In June Belt, and others, versus EmCare, Inc and Texas EM-I Medical Services, P.A., a group of NPs and PAs sued claiming that their employer was violating federal law by...

• Loan Originators Sue for Unpaid Overtime

  Jeremi Young | February 28, 2006 4:53 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Loan originators for First Horizon Home Loan Corp. have filed suit against the company claiming they were illegally denied overtime pay.Follow a series of similar lawsuits agianst Bank of Blue Valley in Overland Park, Kansas, recently settled for over $1 million, National Bank of Kansas and Principal Residential Mortgage, the First Horizon suit is one of the largest of its kind. Close to 6,000...

• $4.45 Million Settlement To Be Paid to New York Employees of Service Corp. International Affiliates

  Jeremi Young | February 21, 2006 8:26 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Service Corp. International will pay over $4 million to settle a lawsuit alleging violations of overtime laws.The case involves premium payments, overtime and other wage & hour claims for funeral directors and other non-exempt employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") and the New York Labor Law ("NYLL"). More than six hundred present and former employees of affiliates of SCI from...

• UBS will Pay $89 Million to Settle Overtime Suit

  Jeremi Young | February 14, 2006 8:49 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  UBS Financial services has agreed to settle class-action suits by employees claiming to have been underpaid for overtime work. Settlement of all claims, both state and federal, could result in payment of up to $89 million. The basis for the suits was that UBS misclassified as exempt certain financial advisers and employees in training for that job. These employees were paid on a salary basis...