Veolia Transportation Faces A Class Action Lawsuit Filed By Blumenthal, Nordrehaug & Bhowmik On Behalf Of The Company's Safety & Training Managers
San Francisco, California (PRWEB) April 30, 2014 -- The class action lawsuit was filed by the San Francisco labor law attorneys at Blumenthal, Nordrehaug & Bhowmik. The complaint, filed on April 23, 2014 , alleges that Veolia Transportation Services ("Veolia") misclassified their employees employed in the position of a Safety & Training Manager as exempt from overtime pay and as a result, allegedly failed to pay overtime wages and provide meal and rest breaks. The proposed class action lawsuit entitled, Rivers, et al. v. Veolia Transportation Services, Inc., Case No. SW 255350 is currently pending in the Sonoma County Superior Court for the State of California. A copy of the most recent complaint filed in the case can be read here.
The class action Complaint alleges that the Safety & Training Managers mostly engaged in non-exempt tasks throughout their workday, including logging incidents and accidents into tracking reports, following the company's training manual to teach people how to drive buses, and entering into spreadsheets daily safety messages received from dispatchers. The Complaint asserts that as a result of the job tasks that the Safety & Training Managers were required to engage in, these employees should have allegedly been paid overtime wages for any hours worked in excess of eight in a workday and more than forty in a workweek.
The San Francisco employment law lawyers at Blumenthal, Nordrehaug & Bhowmik dedicate their practice to helping people who have been wrongfully classified as salaried employees exempt from receiving overtime pay and other claims including violation of California labor laws.
Nicholas De Blouw, Blumenthal, Nordrehaug & Bhowmik, http://www.bamlawca.com/, +1 8589520354, [email protected]
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