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On October 17, 2011, Traber & Voorhees, Change To Win, and Altshuler Berzon filed a complaint on behalf of six warehouse workers and a class of similarly-situated workers asserting claims for various wage and hour violations, including failures to pay minimum wage and overtime, to issue proper wage statements, or maintain accurate time and pay records, and to allow workers to take mandatory meal and rest breaks. These claims were brought on behalf of workers at three warehouses located in Mira Loma and operated primarily for the benefit of Walmart by defendants Schneider, Premier Warehousing Ventures, Rogers-Premier Unloading Services, and Impact Logistics. Just two weeks later, on October 31, 2011, the Court issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) requiring three of the defendants to immediately begin electronically recording the actual hours that warehouse workers were working and to issue itemized wage statements that accurately reported all of the information required under the California Labor Code. In addition, the Court ordered the Schneider defendant to properly identify the Schneider-related entity that operates the relevant Mira Loma warehouse. To read the complete TRO order click here.
After additional briefing, on December 7, 2011, the Court issued a Preliminary Injunction requiring all defendants to electronically record the actual hours worked by each worker and to issue each worker itemized wage statements as required by the California Labor Code. In addition, defendants must record all dates on which a worker reports to work but is not put to work, or is furnished less than half of that worker's usual or scheduled day's work. To the extent workers are paid on a piece rate basis, defendants must list the piece rate formula, including all information necessary to calculate that worker's pay. With respect to such piece rate workers, defendants must identify on a daily basis all hours any worker spent performing duties other than loading or unloading truck containers, along with any hours that worker spent loading or unloading which did not result in a fully loaded or unloaded truck container during that worker's shift. To read the complete Preliminary Injunction order click here.
ACLU AND TRABER & VOORHEES FILE LAWSUIT OVER POLICE ROUNDUP OF LATINO STUDENTS AT GLENDALE'S HOOVER HIGH SCHOOL.
To read the press release describing the case click here.
FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT JUDGE DEAN PREGERSON FINDS LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS VIOLATED ITS EMPLOYEES' CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. The County violated its employees' rights under the California and U.S. Constitutions when it secretly videotaped them in the DPW's Dispatch Room, entering summary judgment against the County. For a copy of the Court's Order click here.
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