May 19, 2023
A bottled water company's requests for workers asserting wage claims to turn over information regarding their personal computers and cellphones, among other discovery requests, were "unduly burdensome" and invasive, an Illinois federal judge ruled Friday.
May 08, 2023
A water delivery worker pursuing unpaid overtime wages slammed on Monday what he described as his ex-employer's irrelevant, overly burdensome and annoying discovery requests and asked a Michigan federal court to severely curtail the company's request for information.
February 23, 2023
A truck driver told a Michigan federal court it erred in ruling that he failed to specifically state that he drove small vehicles too frequently to qualify for an exemption to federal overtime rules, arguing that basic arithmetic derived from his testimony was not distinct from his statements.
February 21, 2023
A Michigan federal judge conditionally certified a collective of a group of current and former drivers for a bottled water company in their lawsuit alleging the company did not pay them overtime wages, ruling Tuesday that the drivers provided they were subjected to similar pay practices.
February 09, 2023
A Michigan federal judge nixed a bottled water company's bid for an early win in a former driver's suit alleging he and 88 other drivers were not paid overtime wages, ruling the company did not prove a motor carrier carveout in federal law applies to the claims.
March 30, 2022
A former driver for a bottled water company urged a Michigan federal judge to grant his bid for conditional certification of at least 88 drivers in his collective action accusing the company of not paying adequate overtime wages, saying there is sufficient evidence to support the motion.
February 25, 2021
A Michigan bottled water company can't use "alternative facts" not in the complaint to dodge a putative collective action from a former truck driver claiming the company kept drivers on the clock but failed to pay them proper overtime, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
October 09, 2020
A Michigan bottled water company kept its delivery drivers on the clock but failed to pay them overtime, according to a wage-and-hour suit filed in that state's federal court.