News Tagged ‘unfair wages’

California maid company fined for ignoring 2007 ruling

cleaning woman 100x100Violating the rules of employment set forth in the Fair Labor Standards Act can be an expensive way to do business. In August of 2007, a federal judge in the U.S. Central District Court for California in Santa Ana ordered Southern California Maid Services Inc. to pay nearly $3.5 million in back wages and another $1 million in liquidated damages to 385 of its employees. The court ruled that by improperly classifying their workers as independent contractors, Sergio Maldonado and Lorenza Rubio, the company owners, avoided paying minimum wage and , which the FLSA requires.

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Department of Labor fails to uphold and enforce FLSA regulations

wage workers 2 100x100If you’re a wage worker and your employer is violating the Federal Labor Standards Act (FLSA) by paying you less than minimum wage, denying you , or misclassifying you as a manager or independent contractor, don’t go running to the Department of Labor () for help anytime soon. According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the ’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) is incompetent. What’s worse, the latest report, released on March 29, represents the third time in less than a year that the GAO has found the Wage and Hour Division’s performance a failure when it came to enforcing FLSA regulations and helping the people it was designed to serve.

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Class action lawsuit against Tyson Foods will proceed

tyson logo 150x150The U.S. District judge for the District of Kansas ruled this week that thousands of meatpacking workers may move forward against Tyson Foods, Inc. as a class action suit. The workers allege that they were denied and other forms of compensation by the company. The ruling was a positive development for the workers, comprised mainly of Latin American immigrants who couldn’t afford to proceed individually.

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Timberlake employee among growing number of FLSA abuses

Working for Justin Timberlake’s posh “Southern Hospitality” does not exempt you from unfair treatment and pay. According to an article from Fox News, the former Southern Hospitality bus boy, Felipe Ramales, filed a against Timberlake’s restaurant for not compensating him for the he accumulated while there. “Southern Hospitality” is not the first to be sued over hours, and it certainly won’t be the last.

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