February 13, 2023
A Tennessee federal judge signed off on a $45,000 settlement between a janitor and employers he accused of misclassifying him as an overtime-exempt manager and denying him overtime wages.
November 17, 2022
A janitor and the companies he accused of misclassifying him as an overtime-exempt manager and denying him his rightful time-and-a-half wages have agreed to a settlement to their wage dispute.
August 17, 2022
A Tennessee federal judge has refused to initially certify a proposed collective of janitorial workers who say Aimbridge Hospitality owes them overtime wages, finding that the suit's named plaintiff didn't show that other "chief engineers" around the country were also misclassified as being employees exempt from OT pay.
May 03, 2022
A hospitality company told a Tennessee federal judge that a former worker can't gain collective certification in his suit claiming he and other workers are owed overtime, arguing he failed to demonstrate that there are enough workers eligible to join the action or that they lost pay.
March 31, 2022
A former hospitality company employee told a Tennessee federal court Thursday that his overtime suit should get collective certification, arguing that the company had a widespread policy of giving workers a misleading job title in order to misclassify them as overtime-exempt.