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Corteva and a group of employees have agreed on a settlement for a class action lawsuit where the employees accused the company of violating the Private Attorneys General Act. Although Corteva has not admitted to any wrongdoing, the company agreed to settle amidst accusations of failing to give employees proper meal and rest breaks. Both... Read...
Lead Plaintiff Daniel Escobar filed a lawsuit against Amazon alleging he and other class members do not receive a minimum wage or meal breaks as drivers in Amazon’s Relay program. Accusations Against Amazon The Relay program requires drivers to carry truckloads of products to and from various distribution centers. Escobar started working for Amazon in... Read...
On September 10, 2021, a former employee of Ulta brought a class-action lawsuit against the beauty retailer for allegations of wage and hour violations. The lead plaintiff, Dorcas-Cothy Kabasele was employed by Ulta in Northern California from June 2019 through March 2021. Kabasele was an hourly, non-exempt employee who was a victim of multiple infractions.... Read...
CVS agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused the pharmacy of improperly compensating employees for off-the-clock training. A federal judge ordered the pharmacy to pay $10,371,346 to the class of pharmacists who brought the lawsuit. The class, composed of nearly 25,000 pharmacists, alleged that CVS didn’t pay them proper overtime wages. The complaint, filed... Read...
A California judge certified the class in a class-action lawsuit against Disneyland. This certification allows the lawsuit to move forward. The plaintiffs assert that Disneyland is in violation of a City of Anaheim ordinance requiring certain businesses to pay their employees a living wage. Under the ordinance, Measure L, resort businesses that receive tax subsidies... Read...
Hertz settled a $48 million class-action lawsuit in May after it agreed to pay $200,000. This case, brought by lead plaintiff Polat K., originated from New York where Polat worked for Hertz from 2013 to 2015. Polat claimed he regularly worked more than 40 hours a week as a Hertz employee. Citing that, on average,... Read...
A group of four lead plaintiffs was granted class-action lawsuit status against Google by a San Francisco state judge in May. The Case Against Google The plaintiffs will represent 10,800 women in their accusations of Google paying women less than men in the same or similar positions. The women state the pay gap averages more... Read...
On March 16, 2020, a former Sam’s Club employee initiated a class-action lawsuit against the company, claiming that Sam’s Club violated several California labor laws. The plaintiff, Marie T., worked as a cashier at a Sam’s Club in El Monte, California, for two years. In her lawsuit, Marie claims that Sam’s Club failed to pay... Read...
On June 9, 2021, five current and former employees of the City of Long Beach filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of California for the County of Los Angeles. The lawsuit’s plaintiffs allege that they have faced systematic racial discrimination in their employment by Long Beach. Specifically, the complaint alleges five causes of action... Read...
Earlier this year, Kaiser Pementante settled two ongoing class-action racial discrimination lawsuits for a combined total of $18.9 million. To resolve the first lawsuit, Stewart et al. v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, et al., Kaiser paid $11.5 million to approximately 2,225 African American current and former employees. For the second lawsuit, Cuenca et al. v.... Read...