A Norfolk U.S. District Court denies plaintiff discount store employees’ motion for equitable tolling of their suit for overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act, and dismisses with prejudice FLSA claims related to assistant store managers, but dismisses plaintiffs’ ...

Tagged with: Judge Raymond A. Jackson Labor U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In a collective FLSA action for overtime wages, a Norfolk U.S. District Court grants a motion to conditionally certify a class, filed by an administrative assistant who has worked for the company for five years. Defendant is a company engaged ...

Tagged with: Judge Raymond A. Jackson Labor U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A plaintiff’s proposed amendment to her complaint against her union local for alleged violation of the “free speech” provision of Section 101(a)(2)  of the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act does not allow her to state a claim, and the ...

Tagged with: Judge James P. Jones Labor U.S. District Court - Western District

An Alexandria U.S. District Court grants the parties’ motion to approve settlement of plaintiffs’ suit for additional pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The proposed settlement requires defendants to pay plaintiffs $6,500 each to resolve all claims raised in ...

Tagged with: Judge James C. Cacheris Labor U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Norfolk U.S. District Court accepts a transfer of venue from an Illinois federal court of this putative class action under the Fair Labor Standards Act alleging defendant Dollar Tree Stores Inc. required or permitted employees to work “off the ...

Tagged with: Judge Raymond A. Jackson Labor U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A group of hourly-wage employees at Perdue poultry processing plants have not stated a civil conspiracy claim under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act against the company with allegations that company personnel conspired to hire illegal aliens in order ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Barbara Milano Keenan Labor

An employee who complained that defendant GoBo Inc., which operated a Bojangle’s restaurant franchise in Lynchburg, violated the Fair Labor Standards Act by deducting his pay for sick leave from his vacation pay, cannot state a claim for retaliation based ...

Tagged with: Judge Norman K. Moon Labor U.S. District Court - Western District

The owner of an “Any Floors” business owes plaintiff laborer total damages of $86,450 in back pay and overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act, and the owner may be personally liable, despite using the corporate form for her ...

Tagged with: Judge Liam O'Grady Labor U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Federal overtime-pay law under the Fair Labor Standards Act does not preempt a Virginia statute that provides for overtime pay at a lower threshold of hours regularly scheduled during a “recurring and fixed period,” and the Richmond U.S. District Court ...

Tagged with: Judge Henry E. Hudson Labor U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A union member who claims she became the target for harassment and retaliation by union and company officials after she reported to regional union officials that the local union president and vice president were observed viewing pornographic images on a ...

Tagged with: Judge James P. Jones Labor U.S. District Court - Western District