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On June 13, 2025, a former employee filed a collective action lawsuit against Kingsley Directional, LLC and its owner Dusty Sewell. The lawsuit claims that Kingsley misclassified its Measurement While Drilling (MWD) Field Engineers as independent contractors and failed to pay them required overtime wages. Kingsley Directional, based in Conroe, Texas, provides directional drilling and MWD services at oil and gas sites across the U.S.

The lawsuit alleges that MWD Engineers regularly worked 12-hour shifts for 14 days at a time鈥攐ften ...

On June 13, 2025, a former KFC employee filed a class action lawsuit against Value FoodService LLC and its subsidiaries鈥擰SR NYC LLC, QSR NY LLC, and QSR East LLC鈥攁s well as CEO Jonathan Blob. These companies operate at least 20 KFC locations in New York City and are accused of violating the New York City Fair Workweek Law, the New York Labor Law (NYLL), and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

The lawsuit alleges that these KFC operators failed to provide ...

The U.S. Supreme Court recently issued a unanimous reinforcing that all workers鈥攔egardless of their race, sexual orientation, or membership in a majority or minority group鈥攁re entitled to the same legal standard when pursuing employment discrimination claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

The Court struck down a prior ruling from the Sixth Circuit that required majority-group plaintiffs to provide additional “background circumstances” evidence to support their claims. According to the justices, this extra evidentiary hurdle improperly imposed ...

A Washington-based steel manufacturer has to pay $6.15 million to resolve claims that it failed to fully compensate its hourly employees for all hours worked.

A federal judge recently approved the settlement, which ends a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of nearly 200 current and former hourly steel workers at the company鈥檚 Kalama, Washington facility. The lawsuit alleged that employees were paid only for their scheduled shifts, rather than the actual time they spent performing ...

In a significant decision, the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously that commissions qualify as wages under state law. This ruling is a major victory for employees who rely on commissions as part of their earnings, including a former sales manager who claimed she was owed $1.3 million in unpaid commissions after selling over $32 million in personal protective equipment (PPE) during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The case involves a former senior enterprise sales manager ...

On Tuesday, March 25, 2025, Fitapelli & Schaffer filed a class and collective action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York against Grovehouse Hospitality, LLC (鈥淕rovehouse鈥� or 鈥淒efendants鈥�). The lawsuit is filed on behalf of all servers, runners, bussers, bartenders, barbacks and other 鈥淭ipped Workers鈥� who work or worked at Misi or Lilia, owned and/or operated by Grovehouse Hospitality, LLC, Grovehouse Hospitality Holdings, LLC, Woodfire Collision LLC, Misi Domino LLC, Melissa Robbins, and ...

On March 20, 2025, 萝莉原创 filed a class and collective action lawsuit against Campbell Soup Company and Snyder鈥檚-Lance Inc. (collectively 鈥淐ampbell Soup鈥�). The lawsuit alleges that Campbell Soup misclassified its Production Supervisors as exempt from overtime pay, resulting in unpaid wages in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (鈥淔LSA鈥�) and Wisconsin state labor laws.

The lawsuit claims that Production Supervisors at Campbell Soup regularly worked 14.5 to 15-hour shifts, often exceeding 40 hours per week, without receiving ...

On March 26, 2024, Fitapelli & Schaffer filed a class action lawsuit against a Taco Bell franchise in NYC, MHF Ralph LLC and related entities (鈥淭aco Bell鈥�). The lawsuit claims that Taco Bell violated the New York Labor Law (鈥淣YLL鈥�) and New York City鈥檚 Fair Workweek Law by failing to compensate hourly employees properly. The lawsuit alleges that Taco Bell failed to pay employees for 鈥渟pread of hours鈥� shifts, did not provide extra pay for 鈥渃lopening鈥� shifts, and failed to ...

A former Wendy鈥檚 employee has filed a class action lawsuit against NY Bacon LLC, which operates several Wendy鈥檚 franchises in New York City. The lawsuit claims that NY Bacon LLC violated the New York City Fair Workweek Law by not providing predictable work schedules, adequate notice of schedule changes, and other required protections for fast food workers. Specific issues include not giving a written estimate of work schedules, changing schedules without proper notice or consent, not offering new shifts to ...

On August 8, 2021, 萝莉原创 filed a class action against Endeavor Air, Inc., a regional airline, for unpaid wages. This lawsuit represents similarly situated current and former manual workers under the New York Labor Law (鈥淣YLL鈥�) to recover untimely wages. Manual Workers for Endeavor Air have alleged the airline paid them on a bi-weekly basis instead of a weekly basis as required for manual workers under the NYLL. Affected workers may include all current and former Manual Workers who worked for Endeavor Air since June 12, 2024 who were paid on ...