Recently, our experienced unpaid wages attorneys filed a new collective and class action lawsuit against Abbott Laboratories for allegedly not fully paying its current and former manufacturing/production employees all the overtime compensation that they have earned. WHAT ARE THE ALLEGATIONS IN THE OVERTIME LAWSUIT AGAINST ABBOTT LABORATORIES? The lawsuit specifically claims that Abbot requires its hourly manufacturing and production employees to arrive to work before the scheduled start of their shifts in order to engage in unpaid pre-shift work such as putting on sanitary clothing and equipme ..read more

Recently, the experienced wage and hour attorneys here at Coffman Legal along with another law firm Nilges Draher filed a new collective action lawsuit against Ford Motor Company for allegedly failing to properly compensate its current and former Process Coaches for all overtime wages owed. What do the process coaches allege in the unpaid overtime lawsuit against Ford Motor Company? Specifically, the lawsuit alleges that Ford has misclassified its current and former Process Coaches as being exempt from being paid overtime and has therefore failed to properly compensate these Process Coaches fo ..read more

Overtime Lawsuit Filed for DuPont’s Ohio Production Employees Recently on June 15, 2023, our experienced wage and hour attorneys filed a new collective and class action lawsuit for unpaid overtime wages against DuPont Specialty Products USA, LLC. The unpaid wages alleges that DuPont has failed to properly compensate its hourly production and manufacturing employees in Ohio for all overtime hours worked. Consequently, the unpaid overtime case seeks to recover hard-earned overtime wages that are owed to DuPont’s Ohio production and manufacturing workers. Specifically, the lawsuit alleges that Du ..read more

Employee leave donation programs have been around for many years. They are a specific program that allows employees to donate time off to their coworkers. Leave donations may be made into a large pool for qualified coworkers to apply for or even directly to another coworker. While every workplace may not offer an employee leave donation program in Ohio, they are becoming increasingly popular, especially during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Even organizations like the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Ohio University have their own leave donation pr ..read more

A new law provides greater rights to pregnant workers. Pregnancy is a major life event affecting numerous aspects of a person’s life. Previously, pregnancy was not a qualifying condition under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and pregnant employees could not solely rely on then-existing law to receive workplace accommodations on basis of their pregnancies. In contrast, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) requires an employer to provide reasonable accommodations for limitations resulting from or related to an employee’s pregnancy, recent childbirth, or other related medical condi ..read more

Our experienced unpaid Overtime Lawyers have filed a new collective and class action lawsuit against Adena Health System for its alleged failure to pay hourly healthcare employees for all overtime hours worked. What are the allegations of the Adena Health System overtime lawsuit? Our lawsuit alleges that Adena has a policy that requires a daily meal break deduction, usually of thirty (30) minutes, from its hourly healthcare employees’ hours worked. However, this meal break deduction is taken from their hours worked regardless of whether or not these employees are actually receiving a fully uni ..read more

Staffing Specialist / Talent Advisor Misclassification and Overtime Lawsuit Filed Against Surge Staffing, LLC Our experienced misclassification and unpaid overtime attorneys have recently filed a new collective and class action lawsuit against Surge Staffing, LLC alleging that they have misclassified hundreds of employees as exempt from overtime. On June 30, 2023, the misclassification lawyers at Coffman Legal, LLC filed a new lawsuit against Surge on behalf of all current and former Staffing Specialists and Talent Advisors from the past three years. The lawsuit alleges that Surge misclassifie ..read more

New National Unpaid Pre-Shift Work Overtime Lawsuit Filed Against DuPont for Manufacturing Workers Our experienced unpaid overtime attorneys have recently filed a new collective action lawsuit against DuPont for its alleged policy of not compensating hourly production / manufacturing employees for time spent working before the scheduled start of their shifts. The lawsuit alleges that DuPont’s hourly production and manufacturing employees are required to arrive to work before the scheduled start of their shifts in order to perform certain integral and indispensable work tasks. Specifically, DuP ..read more

Recently on June 15, 2023, our experienced wage and hour attorneys filed a new collective and class action lawsuit for unpaid overtime wages against DuPont Specialty Products USA, LLC. The unpaid wages alleges that DuPont has failed to properly compensate its hourly production employees in Ohio for all overtime hours worked. Consequently, the unpaid overtime case seeks to recover hard-earned overtime wages that are owed. Specifically, the lawsuit alleges that DuPont requires its hourly production employees to arrive to work approximately 15-20 minutes (or more) before the scheduled start of th ..read more

Employee leave donation programs have been around for many years. They are a specific program that allows employees to donate time off to their coworkers. Leave donations may be made into a large pool for qualified coworkers to apply for or even directly to another coworker. While every workplace may not offer an employee leave donation program in Ohio, they are becoming increasingly popular, especially during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Even organizations like the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Ohio University have their own leave donation pr ..read more