Employee Wage Lawyer and Overtime Lawyer - Mullally v. Waste Management of Massachusetts, Inc.

Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP 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 alleged 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 was brought in the Superior Court of Massachusetts for Norfolk County and was settled for the sum of $7 million. The Court granted approval of the settlement after a June 24, 2010 fairness hearing, and the settlement checks are currently being distributed to the class members. Thomas V. Urmy Jr. and Ian McLoughlin primarily handled the case for Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP.