Unpaid overtime lawsuits continue to proliferate as businesses seek to cut costs by cutting corners. Home Media Magazine reports that the largest privately owned video rental chain in the country, Family Video based in Gleview Illinois has been hit with an unpaid overtime class-action suit. Family Video employs more that…
The holiday season is a busy time for many corporations and particularly for those tied to the retail industry, increased holiday business usually means that employees have to work longer hours to keep up with consumer demands. Our Aurora overtime attorneys came across a case that illustrates what can happen…
When dealing with class-action wage and hour disputes, defendants will try to get the court to dismiss claims by any means that they can, and there are a variety of legal defenses that allow them to do so. At Lubin Austermuehle, our overtime lawyers are familiar with all of the…
Because we focus on large-scale overtime class-action lawsuits, the attorneys here at Lubin Austermuehle have helped clients from many different fields recover their unpaid wages. We think it is important for all of our potential clients out there to understand what kinds of issues arise in wage and hour cases,…
Across the nation, there are employees who go to work each day and earn overtime wages, but are unaware that they should be getting paid time and a half for the time they work over forty hours each week. Lubin Austermuehle focuses on wage and hour law, and our attorneys…
Whether intentional or not, many companies implement policies and procedures that create violations of both federal and state wage laws. In our years of practicing law, Lubin Austermuehle has seen many such policies, and our Crystal Lake overtime attorneys have helped many previous clients victimized by them. Our lawyers recently…
We here at Lubin Austermuehle have extensive experience as Joliet overtime class-action lawyers and are constantly scouring the federal court dockets in Illinois for cases that may help our practice. One particularly instructive opinion was issued by the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division earlier this year in Ottaviano v.…
Lubin Austermuehle is a firm of dedicated attorneys who focus on nationwide class action lawsuits. Our firm has successfully prosecuted wage and hour class actions for years and we pride ourselves on getting results. Our Chicagoland area lawyers know the overtime laws and have dealt with the issues that arise…
The New York Law Journal reports that the national strip club chain Rick’s Caberet International, Inc. faces a wage and hour class-action lawsuit by its dancers for allegedly failing to pay wages and requiring the dancers to earn all monies through tips. The New York federal court where the…
We here at Lubin Austermuehle often represent our clients in federal court, and our practice includes handling wage and hour disputes so we keep an eye on such cases filed in Illinois. In re AON Corp. is the consolidation of a New York case with an action filed in Illinois…