Employee Wage Litigation

Davis v. Footbridge Engineering Services, LLC and The Footbridge Companies, LLC

The firm is co-lead counsel prosecuting an action on behalf of hourly employees who worked in the Defendants' engineering and project control departments who were not paid overtime for hours worked over 40 in any workweek.  Instead, the employees were only paid their regular hourly rate, even for their overtime work hours. The case is brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act and is filed in the United States District Court of Massachusetts in Boston.  You can read the complaint by clicking here, or to read a more detailed description of the case, you can read the Plaintiff's memorandum asking the Court to order the Defendants to produce information about its hourly employees who were not paid time and one half their hourly rates for overtime hours here.  The Court did order the Defendants to produce some of the requested information in response to the Plaintiff's request. 

The firm's investigation in this case indicates that there are other companies that also do not pay their hourly employees overtime at time and one-half their hourly rates.  These employees are often called planners, schedulers, cost engineers, project control engineers, or other similar job titles.  Their work often consists of using software such as Primavera, PRISM, Timberline, Timeline, and Microsoft Projects.  The firm would be interested in hearing from employees with these jobs at other companies to learn more about industry compensation practices.  Please contact us at 1-800-287-8119.    

Mullally v. Waste Management of Massachusetts, Inc.

The firm is co-lead counsel representing a certified class of truck drivers and their co-workers who worked for Waste Management under certain municipal trash hauling contracts in Massachusetts. The case alleges that Waste Management did not pay these employees overtime pay at time and one-half the prevailing wage rates required by Massachusetts law. The case is pending in the Superior Court of Massachusetts for Norfolk County and has now been settled for the sum of $7, 000, 000. The Court has granted preliminary approval of the settlement, and a final approval fairness hearing is scheduled for June 24, 2010.

Winnell v. Couto, et. al.

The firm is prosecuting a class action on behalf of non-managerial employees who worked in the Defendants' Dunkin Donuts stores in Massachusetts and were forced to share their tips with managers and assistant managers. In addition, the case seeks to recover unpaid wages for the time the employees spent counting the tips shared by all employees, including the managerial employees, because the Defendants required that these tips be counted off-the-clock. The case is filed in the Massachusetts Superior Court for Suffolk County in Boston.