May 01, 2025
A jury should determine whether landscape workers are owed overtime wages or if they fall under an exemption from the premium pay, a Kansas federal judge ruled while finding the H-2B visa applications their employer filed did not include a promise to pay the extra wages.
April 18, 2025
It's too soon to determine whether a landscaping company should be sanctioned for its attorneys' failure to produce accurate lists of its current and former employees in a class action alleging unpaid overtime, a Kansas federal judge said, saying both sides' attorneys need to meet.
February 18, 2025
A landscaping company urged a Kansas federal court to grant it a win in a workers' class action accusing it of stiffing them on overtime wages, saying by loading trucks and performing safety checks on trailers, the workers fall under a Fair Labor Standards Act exemption.
February 13, 2025
U.S. citizens and H-2B landscape workers have called on a Kansas federal judge to sanction a company accused of cheating them out of overtime pay, saying it supplied "woefully incomplete" class lists that were not in compliance with court orders.
October 30, 2024
U.S. citizens and H-2B landscape workers who claimed that a company cheated them out of overtime pay can keep their collective status while also proceeding in three separate classes, a Kansas federal judge ruled.