Class Action Filed Against A.J. Kirkwood & Associates, Inc., for Allegedly Failing to Pay Overtime Wages.

The class action complaint alleges that the electrical contracting services corporation failed to pay proper overtime wages and did not reimburse their employees working in California for required business expenses.

The Los Angeles employment law attorneys at Blumenthal Nordrehaug Bhowmik De Blouw LLP, filed a class action lawsuit against A.J. Kirkwood & Associates, Inc., alleging that the company failed to lawfully calculate and pay their employees the correct overtime wages. The class action lawsuit against A.J. Kirkwood & Associates, Inc., is currently pending in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, Case No. 19STCV04435. To read a copy of the Complaint, please click here.

The lawsuit filed against A.J. Kirkwood & Associates, Inc., alleges that from time to time, employees are unable to take off duty meal and rest breaks and are not fully relieved of duty for their meal periods. Allegedly, the company employees are required to perform work as ordered by A.J. Kirkwood & Associates, Inc., for more than five (5) hours during a shift without receiving an off-duty meal break. California labor laws require an employer to provide an employee required to perform work for more than five (5) hours during a shift with, a thirty (30) minute uninterrupted meal break prior to the end of the employee’s fifth (5th) hour of work and a second uninterrupted meal break when employees are required to work ten (10) hours.

Additionally, the class action lawsuit alleges that DEFENDANT unlawfully and unilaterally failed to accurately calculate wages for overtime worked by PLAINTIFF and other members of the CALIFORNIA CLASS in order to avoid paying these employees the correct overtime compensation. As a result, PLAINTIFF and the other members of the CALIFORNIA CLASS forfeited wages due them for working overtime without compensation at the correct overtime rates.

For more information about the class action lawsuit against A.J. Kirkwood & Associates, Inc., call (800) 568-8020 to speak to an experienced California employment attorney today.

Blumenthal Nordrehaug Bhowmik De Blouw LLP, is a labor law firm with law offices located in San Diego County, Riverside County, Los Angeles County, Sacramento County, and San Francisco County. The firm has a statewide practice of representing employees on a contingency basis for violations involving unpaid wages, overtime pay, discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination and other types of illegal workplace conduct.