May 30, 2024
A chauffeur company agreed to give $2.5 million to settle over 600 drivers' claims that it failed to pay them hourly or for overtime or maintain records as required by federal and state labor law, according to a bid to approve the deal filed in Arizona federal court.
April 05, 2024
A chauffeur company and a collective of drivers accusing it of failing to pay them all their overtime wages told an Arizona federal judge Friday that they reached a settlement and asked the court to cancel a jury trial that was scheduled for April 16.
March 29, 2024
A group of chauffeurs slammed its employer's bid to compel arbitration of unpaid wage claims less than three weeks before the claims are scheduled to go to trial, calling the motion a frivolous, eleventh-hour effort to disrupt trial preparation.
February 08, 2024
A chauffeured transportation company improperly demanded that employees agree to arbitrate wage claims as a precondition to continued employment after the certification of a Fair Labor Standards Act collective, an Arizona federal judge found.
November 16, 2023
An Arizona federal court reconsidered and tossed an order in which it decertified a collective of drivers alleging that a chauffeur company failed to pay overtime, saying a recent summary judgment decision that found the drivers were not overtime-exempt warrants reuniting the dissolved collective.
November 08, 2023
A group of drivers cannot seek civil penalties in their minimum wage suit against a chauffeur company, an Arizona federal judge found, ruling that the workers had no private cause of action to recover penalties under state law.
August 30, 2023
Drivers were stripped of their conditional certification in a collective action seeking unpaid overtime from a chauffeur company, an Arizona federal judge determined Wednesday, saying the federal wage claims need to be reviewed individually.
January 31, 2023
An Arizona federal judge certified a class of more than 350 chauffeurs who allege that they were not paid at least minimum wages for all hours worked, ruling that potentially varied damages calculations among class members didn't mean drivers were dissimilarly treated.
January 13, 2023
An Arizona federal judge trimmed claims that a chauffeur company violated Arizona state wage law by denying its workforce time-and-a-half overtime pay, finding that those claims were preempted by the Fair Labor Standards Act.