Melissa LaFreniere  |  April 24, 2015

Category: Labor & Employment

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Hertz Rent A CarThe worldwide leader of rental car companies, Hertz Corp. is asking that a recent $11.5 million California wage and hour class action lawsuit be transferred to a federal court. The California wage and hour lawsuit, filed by Philip L. on behalf of himself and more than 2,000 current and former employees of Hertz Corp. and Hertz Local Edition (HLE), claims that Class Members are owed millions in unpaid wages for working without meal and rest breaks.

Hertz is requesting the transfer to a California federal court based on evidence that the Florida corporation is being sued by defendants in another state for an excess of $5 million which qualifies the California wage and hour lawsuit for federal jurisdiction.

Hertz rental car company has more than 1,700 locations in the United States in addition to 1,300 global locations.

California Break Laws

California labor laws require employees to be relieved for a 30-minute lunch break after working five or more hours and also mandates 10-minute breaks every four hours. If this does not occur, employers are subject to serious fines. For each meal break that is not taken, employers are required by CA break laws to compensate workers for one hour of pay at the regular rate and workers have three years to claim it. For each missed rest break, workers must be paid one hour of pay within a paycheck cycle.

This Hertz California wage and hour class action lawsuit alleges that an $11.25/hour California employee who missed a daily lunch and rest break each day (factoring in anywhere between a 30-day employment up to a 127-thousand week period) x 2,000 Class Members leads to damages in the amount of $11,557,500. Plaintiff and former Hertz employee Philip states the rental car company repeatedly encouraged workers to skip meal and rest breaks without compensation regardless of California employment law.

California lunch break laws require companies to relieve employees of all duties for an uninterrupted 30 minutes. Labor laws in California entitle hourly workers to a meal break free from responsibilities and if that’s not possible it must be agreed to in writing by the employee and the employee must be paid.

California Wage and Hour Lawsuits

Philip represents thousands who want Hertz Corp. to finally compensate their workers for unpaid wages. However, Hertz is not the only company under investigation for California wage and hour law violations, numerous overtime lawsuits are being filed for breach of California labor laws.

California employee class action lawsuits are being investigated and many employees may have claims for the following:

  • Unpaid wages
  • Unpaid overtime
  • Tip pooling
  • Off the clock work
  • Less than minimum wage
  • Misclassification

If in the last three years you have reason to believe your employer violated one of the many California employment laws, you may be able to join a class action lawsuit.

The Hertz California Wage and Hour Lawsuit is Case No. 3:15-cv-00667, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.

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