A wage and hour lawsuit involving nearly 900 employees of Wolfgang Puck has concluded in a class action settlement after nearly two years of litigation.
Beginning in 2012, a large group of employees from Wolfgang Puck alleged various wage and hour class action claims against the popular upscale restaurant company. Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group owns three major restaurants including Chinois of Santa Monica, Spago in Beverly Hills, and Wolfgang Puck Bar & Grill in Los Angeles.
Plaintiffs who filed this Wolfgang Puck wage and hour class action lawsuit allegedly worked at all three of the California restaurant locations. The wage and hour class action lawsuit alleges that employees missed meal periods and missed rest breaks under orders from their Wolfgang Puck management. The wage and hours class action lawsuit also alleged that many employees worked unpaid overtime per the demand of the management.
FLSA Wage and Hour Class Action Lawsuit Allegations
In the United States, a law called the Fair Labor Standards Act (or FLSA) sets certain minimum requirements that employers must follow in regards to the treatment and payment of their employees. This law establishes wage and hour standards, unpaid overtime rules, and outlines federally mandated breaks including meal periods. Part of how the FLSA is designed to be enforced is through wage and hour lawsuits like this class action action lawsuit against Wolfgang Puck. In this particular wage and hour class action lawsuit, an initial settlement was reached in August of 2014, but it was not until early 2015 that the settlement was formally approved by the federal court.
On Jan. 6, 2015, the court gave final approval to the proposed $1.7 million Wolfgang Puck wage and hour class action settlement. The wage and hour settlement will provide relief to an estimated 888 employees of Wolfgang Puck.
According to the terms of the Wolfgang Puck class action settlement, a wage and hour settlement fund will be established to compensate eligible Wolfgang Puck employees.
Additionally, the wage and hour settlement contains the provision that if more than $10,000 of the fees are unclaimed, they will be proportionally distributed to any plaintiff that cashed their initial check in the first 90 days after the settlement was finalized. If there is less than $10,000 in unclaimed settlement money, the remainder will go to the Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice.
Like many FLSA lawsuits, this wage and hour lawsuit took the form of a class action lawsuit. Since wage and hour lawsuits often involve multiple employees of the same employer they are well-suited for inclusion in the same wage and hour class action lawsuits. Class action wage and hour lawsuits are designed to help streamline the legal system by condensing, tens, hundreds, or even thousands of potential individual wage and hour violations lawsuits into a single case, which is then prosecuted at once. This saves resources for the plaintiffs, defendants, and the legal system. Wage and hour class action lawsuits also can make it economically viable to file a suit in spite of legal fees.
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