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Ochoa et al v. McDonald's Corp et al

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Case overview

Case Number:

3:14-cv-02098

Court:

California Northern

Nature of Suit:

Civil Rights: Jobs

Multi Party Litigation:

Class Action

Judge:

James Donato

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  1. March 20, 2017

    $2M In Attys' Fees, Costs Sought In McDonald's Wage Suit

    A group of McDonald's workers asked a California federal judge Friday to award their attorneys $2 million in fees and costs for litigating a wage-and-hour suit stemming from their employment at several San Francisco Bay Area locations, a request they say reflects less than half of what was actually incurred in the action.

  2. October 28, 2016

    McDonald's To Pay $3.75M In Calif. Wage Suit

    McDonald's Corp. agreed to pay $3.75 million to settle a proposed wage-and-hour class action, three months after a California federal judge ruled a franchise owner's settlement in the case didn't get the parent company out of the claims, according to papers filed Friday.

  3. July 22, 2016

    McDonald's To Appeal Class Cert. To 9th Circ. In Wage Suit

    McDonald's wants the Ninth Circuit to review the recent class certification of a group of employees suing for fair wages and overtime compensation, arguing Thursday that the lower court was "manifestly erroneous" in relying on fatally dissimilar evidence of the mental states of more than 800 class members when it made its decision.

  4. July 07, 2016

    McDonald's Workers Win Class Cert. In Calif. Wage Suit

    A California federal judge on Thursday granted class certification to workers at five McDonald's locations alleging they were unlawfully deprived of fair hourly wages and overtime, saying the claims against the corporation can proceed on a classwide basis after a settlement was reached with a franchise owner.

  5. December 22, 2015

    Calif. McDonald's Franchisee Settles Wage-Hour Claims

    Current and former McDonald's franchise employees asked a California federal judge on Monday to approve a $700,000 wage-and-hour settlement with the franchisee behind the Bay Area restaurants, as they continue to pursue claims against McDonald's itself as an alleged joint employer.

  6. September 25, 2015

    McDonald's Gets Claims Trimmed In Wage Class Action

    A California federal judge on Friday tossed some claims from a putative class action seeking to hold McDonald's liable as a joint employer for a franchisee's failure to pay workers proper wages, but the fast food giant remains on the hook under an alternate theory of liability.

  7. June 22, 2015

    McDonald's Liable For Franchisee's Skimpy Pay, Workers Say

    McDonald's Corp. restaurant workers asked a California federal court Friday to not cut the fast-food giant from their putative wage and hour class action, arguing that McDonald's misstated the legal standards that purportedly protect it from being liable for franchisees' employment practices.

  8. May 13, 2015

    McDonald's Seeks To Duck 'Joint Employer' Calif. Wage Suit

    McDonald's Corp. asked a California federal court Tuesday to toss a putative class action seeking to hold the fast-food giant liable as a joint employer for a franchisee's failure to pay workers proper wages, saying it had no day-to-day control over the franchisee's operations.

  9. May 07, 2015

    McDonald's Calls Worker Testimony Changes Outrageous

    McDonald's Corp. urged the California federal judge overseeing a proposed class action accusing the fast food chain of not fully compensating its workers to not allow plaintiffs' attorneys to correct employees' depositions in ways that would "fundamentally change their testimony," calling the proposed changes "beyond the pale."

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