Meredith Friesen  |  June 24, 2015

Category: Labor & Employment

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Warner-Music-Group-logoA group of interns filed a wage and hour lawsuit against Warner Music Group claiming that the plaintiffs were due unpaid wages Warner allegedly withheld from them.

Warner recently agreed to pay a $4.2 million settlement to the hundreds of interns who joined in the class action lawsuit.

The entertainment industry has been struck with multiple wage and hour class action lawsuits filed by interns who claimed that were paid below minimum wage or nothing. Giant entertainment companies such as Twenty-First Century Fox have been accused of wage and hour violations including unpaid wage violations.

The wage and hour class action settlement will be extended to interns who were victims of the alleged wage and hour violations who worked in New York for Warner as far back as 2007. Warner owner Len Blavatnik stated that if more than 1,135 plaintiffs joined the class action lawsuit then he had the right to terminate the settlement.

Warner stated that it will continue to support their internship program.

Already, multiple companies have paid millions and millions of dollars to plaintiffs in wage and hour class action lawsuits. Three wage and hour class action lawsuits involving unpaid wages for interns alone were given $6.4 million, $5.85 million, and $7.21 million.

Wage and Hour Laws

Outside of the entertainment industry internship programs, countless wage and hour class action lawsuits have been filed against employers for failing to pay wages or overtime according to wage and hour laws. Unpaid overtime is one of the more common accusations in wage and hour lawsuits.

Employees may file a wage and hour class action lawsuit if they believe their employer is guilty of misconduct in the following areas:

  • Unpaid overtime
  • Unpaid wages
  • Off-the-clock work
  • Employee misclassification as exempt
  • Employee misclassification as independent contractor
  • Missed meals & breaks
  • Donning & doffing
  • Less than minimum wage
  • Excessive sidework
  • Unpaid internship

Wage and hour laws have been set forth in the Fair Labor and Standards Act which protects employees’ rights to minimum wage, meal breaks, and overtime payment.

Wage and hour laws protect against unpaid wages and unpaid overtime. Many employees have been misclassified as exempt from overtime when in fact their employers were legally required to pay for all overtime hours worked. 

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