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Gelber v. Akal Security, Inc.
Case Number:
1:16-cv-23170
Court:
Nature of Suit:
Multi Party Litigation:
Class Action
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Firms
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April 27, 2022
ICE Contractor Reaches Deal To End 6-Year Meal Break Suit
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement subcontractor and a group of workers who guarded deported migrants on flights to their countries of origin agreed to a $240,000 settlement to close out a long-running dispute over the nature of meal breaks for workers stuck on airplanes.
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October 01, 2021
Stuck On Plane Is No Meal Break, 11th Circ. Says
An ICE contractor that organizes deportation flights can't automatically deduct meal breaks from its aviation security officers' compensable overtime because the workers weren't completely relieved of their duties while on the plane, a split Eleventh Circuit ruled.
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March 27, 2017
Sitting In Deportees' Feces Not A Real Break, Workers Say
A group of security officers for government contractor Akal Security Inc. asked a Florida federal court to hand them a win in their wage-and-hour suit Monday, saying a few hastily downed bites in a filthy airplane full of deportees' feces and vomit doesn't count as a real meal period.