Employee Wage Lawyer and Overtime Lawyer - Olmeda v. AM Broadband LLC

Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP represented a class of cable technicians seeking to recover unpaid overtime wages under Massachusetts wage and hour laws and under the federal overtime law, the Fair Labor Standards Act. The case involved employees in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland, New York, Virginia, and Florida who were paid on a piece-rate basis for each installation performed and were not paid additional overtime compensation for each hour worked over 40 in each workweek. The case was filed in Springfield, Massachusetts and the Court ruled that the company had broken the overtime laws. The case settled for approximately $845,000, for approximately 246 employees. Thomas V. Urmy Jr. and Adam Stewart primarily handled the case for Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP.