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Hospital workers for a hospital group based out of Florida have reached a nearly $20 million settlement to settle claims of significant unpaid wages. The hospital group, Sacred Heart Health System, has more than 2,600 facilities with more than 100,000 employees across the United States making it one of the largest healthcare providers in the country. The $19.7 million settlement will resolve claims for approximately thousands of hospital workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). All current and former non-exempt hourly hospital workers within the last three years stand to benefit from this payout.

The collective action lawsuit, which was initially filed back ...

Sales Representatives to Receive $6.7M To Settle OT Claims from Vacation Resorts

Sales representatives for a Nevada based resort company have just been able to secure a significant settlement for unpaid wages. The $6.7 million result will resolve claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) that the resort misclassified its sales representatives as exempt from receiving overtime pay. The nearly $7 million settlement will benefit approximately 600 current and former “vacation counselors”or sales reps that worked for Diamond resorts across the nation between 2016 and 2019.

This collective action lawsuit, which was originally filed in 2018, alleged Diamond Resorts worked its sales representatives ...

Healthcare workers for NorthShore University Health System, based out of Illinois, have recently settled a class action lawsuit over vaccine mandates. The hefty settlement, which reached over $10.3 million, will resolve claims employees made relating to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate. More than 500 current and former healthcare workers employed by the NorthShore University Health System will benefit from the $10,337,500 payout. 

The class action lawsuit, which was originally brought back in October 2021, alleged employees were denied religious exemption for ...

Zara Retailer Lawsuit for Owed Wages Successfully Moves Forward

The class and collective action filed by Fitapelli & Schaffer, LLP against the fashion retailer, Zara,continues to successfully move forward after the Court denied Defendant’s motion to dismiss. The Court also pointed out that the allegations in the lawsuit, such as untimely payment claims, are tangible, monetary harms that “readily qualify as concrete injuries…” which Defendants opposed.

The lawsuit, which was filed in 2020, aims to recover overtime pay and other damages for alleged violations by the retailer under New York Labor Law (“NYLL”) and the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). Employees that may be ...

Chipotle Mexican Grill, the California-based fast-food chain, has recently agreed to end workers’ claims of multiple violations of New York City’s Fair Workweek Law. . The whopping $20 million settlement will resolveclaims that Chipotle violated several city labor laws. More than 13,000 employees stand to benefit from this settlement. Affected individuals include current and former Chipotle hourly employees who worked for the chain’s New York City locations between 2017 and 2022.

The investigation, led by the New ...

Managers for the fast-food chain, Red Robin, have recently settled claims of unpaid wages for nearly 3 million dollars. A class and collective action lawsuit was initially filed on behalf of kitchen managers of several Red Robin locations in New York back in August 2018 for allegations of misclassification for unpaid overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) and New York Labor Law (“NYLL”). Affected workers include current and former assistant managers and kitchen managers ...

Travel Nurses for a medical staffing company based out of California are on track to recovering nearly $2 million in owed wages.  The class action lawsuit, originally filed in 2017 under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), looked to recover unpaid wages for overtime pay. Almost 300 travel nurses employed by Jackson Nurse Professionals LLC, a staffing company, stand to benefit from this payout with some workers receiving over $35,000. 

The lawsuit alleged that the agency failed to include all forms ...

Prison guards in Missouri will be able to recover significant amount of owed wages, after a decade long lawsuit. Approximately 13,000 current and former prison guards from over 20 state prisons across the Missouri stand to benefit from the $128 million settlement. The preliminarily approvedsettlement will be paid out in installments. First, $33 million of the total will go to affected employees that will each get a prorated amount based on how long they worked for the agency.Then, over the course of the next 8 years, $65 million will be paid out to prison guards via an extra 15 minutes of overtime for every shift they work.

The original lawsuit, which was filed back in 2012, ...

Account executives for a national wholesale mortgage lending company have recently settled claims of unpaid wages. The nearly $3 million settlement with United Wholesale Mortgagewill resolve claims of unpaid overtime dating back as far as 2018. Current and former account executives that were employed by United Wholesale Mortgage between October 12, 2018 and December 23, 2021 stand to benefit from the $2.75 million settlement.

The lawsuit, which was filed in 2021, alleged that the lender required significant overtime hours but denied its account executives overtime pay as mandated by the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). Specifically, the lawsuit claimed that the company had policies and practices preventing them from filing for ...

Nursing facility caregivers have recently been able to recover nearly $3 million in owed wages. Peterson Health Care Inc., which manages health care centers across several states, allegedly failed to pay its workers the proper overtime. Affected workers include over 3,000 nursing facility caregivers at 84 locations employed by Peterson Health Care throughout Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Missouri.

Specifically, the Department of Labor investigation looked into claims made by nursing facility caregivers that alleged they weren’t properly ...