Sprint Hit with Unpaid Overtime Class Action Lawsuit
By Courtney Coren
Three Sprint employees have filed a wage and hour class action lawsuit against the cellular phone company for overtime wages that they believe they and others are owed under federal and state law.
Plaintiffs Olivia Guilbaud, Marques Lilly and Michael Wong worked for Sprint Nextel Corporation’s retail stores in California. They claimed that Sprint violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) by depriving them and others in similar situations of their wages they earned from overtime hours that they worked. Guilbaud and Lilly no longer work for Sprint while Wong is still employed with the company.
According to the Sprint overtime class action lawsuit, all three employees worked more than eight hours per day or 40 hours per week for Sprint without receiving overtime wages, as required under both federal and state law.
They are seeking to represent anyone who worked for Sprint as a Retail Consultant, Lead Retail Consultant, or Assistant Store Manager in one of Sprint’s retail stores within the past four years and are owed unpaid overtime, which the three former employees argue was a regular practice for the cellular phone company.
The three former employees are asking for an accurate accounting of the wages that they and the other employees are owed for overtime work, compensation for the overtime hours worked, damages, ‘waiting time penalties’ for those who no longer work for Sprint and should have received those wages when they terminated employment, attorney fees and any other relief determined by the court.
According to the wage and hour lawsuit, Sprint also violated California labor law which requires employers to pay “premium wages owed for overtime hours worked based on the legally required ‘regular rate’ including any commission and/or bonus wage compensation.”
The FLSA became law in 1938 under President Franklin Roosevelt.
“An employer who requires or permits an employee to work overtime is generally required to pay the employee premium pay for such overtime work,” according to the U.S. Department of Labor. “Employees covered by the FLSA must receive overtime pay for hours worked in excess of 40 in a workweek at at least one and one-half times their regular rates of pay.”
Guilbaud, Lilly, and Wong argue that Sprint knew or should have known that their employees were supposed to be paid higher wages for overtime work.
This Sprint Unpaid Overtime Class Action Lawsuit is Guildbaud, et al. v. Sprint Nextel Corp., et al., Case No. CV-13-4357, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California as a Class Action Lawsuit.
If you or someone you know did not receive all the money they earned, legal options are available to you. Learn more and get a free consultation regarding a claims eligibility at the Wage & Hour Unpaid Overtime Class Action Lawsuit Investigation. Experienced legal professionals are able to determine if you have a case. You could receive back pay as well as penalties. Don’t delay — the statute of limitations under the FLSA is two to three years, depending on the state, so act now.
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