Blue Shield Hit With Lawsuit Filed by Blumenthal Nordrehaug Bhowmik De Blouw LLP, Alleging The Company Failed To Provide Meal and Rest Breaks
The pending class action lawsuit against Blue Shield alleges the Health Plan providing company failed to pay proper Overtime Wages to their California employees.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The San Francisco employment law lawyers at Blumenthal Nordrehaug Bhowmik De Blouw LLP, filed a class action lawsuit against BLUE SHIELD OF CALIFORNIA LIFE & HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY, alleging they failed to pay their non-exempt employees working in California for all overtime hours worked and allegedly failed to provide all legally required meal and rest periods under California law. The pending class action lawsuit against BLUE SHIELD is currently pending in the San Francisco County Superior Court, Case No. CGC-18-571842. To read a copy of the Complaint, please click here.
The pending class action lawsuit against BLUE SHIELD alleges that the company fails to have a policy or practice which provided a full off-duty, thirty minute uninterrupted meal break to their California non-exempt employees. Consequently, employees working for the California company allegedly forfeited meal and rest breaks without additional compensation.
The Complaint further alleges that BLUE SHIELD failed and continues to fail to accurately calculate and pay PLAINTIFF and the other members of the CALIFORNIA CLASS for their overtime worked. BLUE SHIELD compensates their employees on a non-discretionary incentive program along with an hourly rate. Allegedly, management and supervisors described the incentive program to potential and new employees as part of the cornilleau compensation package. As a matter of law, the incentive compensation received by PLAINTIFF and other CALIFORNIA CLASS Members must be included in the "regular rate of pay." The failure to do so has allegedly resulted in a systematic underpayment of overtime compensation to PLAINTIFF and other CALIFORNIA CLASS Members by DEFENDANT.
For more information about the class action lawsuit against BLUE SHIELD, call attorney Nicholas De Blouw at (800)-568-8020.
Blumenthal Nordrehaug Bhowmik De Blouw LLP is an employment law firm with law offices located in San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles, and Riverside Counties. The firm has a statewide practice of representing employees on a contingency basis for violations involving unpaid wages, overtime pay, discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination and other types of illegal workplace conduct.
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SOURCE Blumenthal, Nordrehauge & Bhowmik
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