Borders Overtime Pay Investigation
The national law firm of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, represents plaintiffs in a wide range of cases, including those of employees denied overtime pay. We are currently investigating the overtime pay practices of Borders stores, particularly with regard to its managers and assistant managers.
Legal Rights of Employees To Overtime Pay
In many cases, employers have misclassified their employees as "exempt," "executives" or "independent contractors" as a way to prevent those employees from receiving benefits and overtime. This has often occurred when employees were called managers and yet performed many of the same tasks as non-managers. Examples include people who work in chain restaurants as managers yet wait tables and work at the cash register.
Lieff Cabraser has obtained lost wages and benefits for tens of thousands of employees in overtime pay lawsuits, including the successful representation of employees of Denny's, Carrow's, the advertising firm TMP Worldwide, the California State Automobile Association, and Longs Drugs Stores. In addition, many computer companies unlawfully label employees who install and maintain computer software and equipment as exempt in order to deprive them of overtime pay. Lieff Cabraser is prosecuting these types of employment overtime pay lawsuits as well.
Contact Lieff Cabraser
Current and former employees of Borders, including managers and assistant managers, who wish to discuss in confidence their work experiences and legal rights are welcome to contact an attorney at Lieff Cabraser by clicking here. There is no charge or obligation for our review of your claim.
About Lieff Cabraser
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, is a 50-plus attorney law firm with offices in San Francisco, New York and Nashville. Our firm is committed to protecting the rights of employees nationwide to equitable treatment and fair wages. Lieff Cabraser employment attorneys have represented thousands of employees seeking to vindicate their rights in cases involving gender and race discrimination, overtime pay and wage and hour violations, and the mishandling of funds in pension and 401k plans.
We served as counsel in a class action suit against Abercrombie & Fitch, which led to a novel, precedent-setting settlement in 2005. The settlement required the retail clothing giant to pay $40 million to Latino, African-American, Asian-American and female applicants and employees who charged the company with discrimination. In addition, Abercrombie was required to promote diversity among its workforce and to prevent discrimination based on race or gender.
We served as class counsel for approximately 25,000 female employees of,
and applicants for employment with, Home Depot. In 1998, the Court approved
a settlement of the case in which Home Depot agreed to modify its hiring,
promotion and compensation practices, and paid $87.5 million, one of the highest
amounts ever paid in a gender discrimination case.
Lieff Cabraser has obtained lost wages and benefits for employees in overtime pay lawsuits, including the successful representation of employees of Denny's, Carrow's, the advertising firm TMP Worldwide, the California State Automobile Association, as well as several corporations in the computer industry including IBM and Computer Sciences Corporation.
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