Inter-Con Security Services
Overtime Pay Class Action Lawsuit
Inter-Con Security Services Overtime Pay Class Action Lawsuit
On February 25, 2008, U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel of the Northern District of California granted final approval to the class action settlement in Adams v. Inter-Con Security Services.
Specifically, Inter-Con has agreed to pay $4,000,000 to a class of approximately 15,000 current and former Inter-Con Security Officers nationwide. Inter-Con has also agreed to cease the unlawful practices. (This class action settlement is separate from the Williams v. Inter-Con and Ferris v. Inter-Con cases, which together were settled for $2,500,000 recently in Los Angeles Superior Court. Those cases involved current and former Security Officers working in California only.)
Summary of Lawsuit Allegations Against Inter-Con Security
In the complaint filed September 5, 2006, Plaintiffs charged that Inter-Con unlawfully required its Security Officers to attend 15-minute security briefings prior to each 8-hour shift, without paying them. New employees were also required to attend several hours of unpaid orientation and training. Additionally, Security Officers were not paid interest on deposits made for their required uniforms.
Plaintiff Roy Adams worked as a security guard protecting the South San Francisco Kaiser hospital from June 2004 until January 2008. Adams stated, "I’m bringing this suit to ensure that my coworkers and I get paid properly for all the work we do. I’ve been in security and law enforcement for many years, and I like knowing that I’m helping protect my neighbors. But we can’t afford to work for free."
Class Definition
The settlement includes all Inter-Con security officers employed on a non-U.S. State Department (UPSP) contract:
- in California between September 5, 2002 and October 29, 2007; or
- in Illinois and/or Maryland between January 29, 2004 and October 29, 2007; or
- in any other state between September 5, 2003 and October 29, 2007
Receiving Money from the Settlement
The deadline to submit a claim form has already passed. If you already mailed your claim form and want to confirm that it was received, please visit the Claims Administrator’s Adams v. Inter-Con site at http://www.cptgroup.com/adams, and enter the ID number from the notice packet you received in the mail. To contact the Claims Administrator by phone, please call 877-307-2784.
Injunctive Relief (Policy Changes)
In addition to making $4,000,000 in payments to class members, Inter-Con has also given notice that they will cease to require unpaid off-the-clock work, and will now pay interest on uniform deposits.
Submit Your Claim
Current and former security officers who wish to learn more about the overtime pay class action lawsuit may call class counsel toll free at 1-800-949-0585.
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.
Lieff Cabraser has obtained lost wages and benefits for employees in overtime pay lawsuits, including under the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act and state wage and hour laws. In recent years, our firm, along with co-counsel, has represented technical support workers seeking to recover overtime pay in similar class action cases. Such cases have resulted in settlements for the technical support workers, including: $24 million for IT workers at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) in 2005, $12.8 million for BSCs at Wells Fargo in 2007, $65 million for IT workers at IBM in 2007, and $7.7 million for IT workers at Cadence in 2008. Our firm also represents IT support workers in an overtime class action against JP Morgan Chase.
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