Martin & Jones Blog  filter by author: Jill Hernandez -- On FLSA

The National Labor Committee ("NLC"), reports that transnational corporations roam the world to find the cheapest and most vulnerable workers.  They're mostly young women in poor countries like China, India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia, Nicaragua, and many other countries working up to 14 or more hours a day for sub-poverty wages under horrific conditions. 

On November 25, 2009, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ("COA"), in Musch v. Domtar Industries, held that employees' daily post-shift activities of changing clothes and showering due to potential chemical exposure in employer's paper mill was NOT so integral and indispensable to employment that it was subject to overtime compensation under the FLSA. 

A recent report conducted by the American Rights At Work Education organization exposed T-Mobile and its parent company Geutsche Telekom's (DT) active campaign to discourage U.S. workers from forming a union. 

A former Amazon.com employee in Las Vegas is seeking class-action status for a lawsuit claiming the company's warehouse workers nationwide have been shorted on overtime pay because of the company's practice of rounding time to the quarter hour.   

In San Francisco, CA the owners of a residential cleaning service were taken into custody and later released after failing to comply with a court order directing payment of $3.5 million in back wages to 385 employees.  

On Industry Week, it was reported that Tyson Foods, the poultry producer, was found in violation of the FLSA for failing to pay employees at an Alabama plant for activities required by the company. 

On October 1, 2009, a Multonomah County jury in Portland, Oregon, found Del Monte based in Florida had violated Oregon minimum wage laws for having its employees engaging in donning/doffing activities prior to and at the end of their shift and during lunch.  

Current and former Wells Fargo technical support staff who installed, maintained and supported the bank's software and hardware, filed a complaint in 2008 charging that they should have been paid overtime for hours worked over 40 per week.

Low-wage workers are routinely denied proper overtime pay and are often paid less than the minimum wage.