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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 ...

Warehouse workers in Illinois have recently settled a collective and class action lawsuit accusing a logistics company for unpaid wages. The lawsuit, which was originally filed mid 2020 against Pinnacle, brought wage claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), the Illinois Minimum Wage Law (“IMWL”), the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act (“IWPCA”), the Maryland Wage and Hour Law (“MWHL”) and the Maryland Wage Payment and Collection Law (“MWPCL”). The $3.25 million settlement will resolve ...

Disaster relief workers for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (“FEMA”) have just reached a substantial settlement resolving claims of unpaid wages. The $16.5 million deal will settle claims of unpaid overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”)made by disaster relief workers paid by FEMA.More that 3,800 current and former workers part of the class action will benefit from the nearly $17 million settlement.

The grievance, which was initially filed in March 2018, claimed these emergency workers were improperly denied the proper overtime when working over 40 hours per week as required ...

IT sales representatives for A Canadian based information technology company have just resolved their claims of unpaid wages. This collective action lawsuit, which was originally filedless than two months ago, reached a settlement deal of $1.8 million to cover allegations of significant unpaid wages. Approximately 190 IT Sales Representatives that worked for Softchoice in Illinois between June 28, 2018, and Oct. 31, 2021stand to benefit from this payout. 

The lawsuit specifically alleged that IT sales representatives were wrongly classified as exempt from receiving overtime payunder the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) and the Illinois Minimum Wage ...