Miami, Florida labor and employment lawyer represented plaintiff, who sued defendant on a Fair Labor Standards Act violation theory.

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and youth employment standards affecting employees in the private sector and in Federal, State, and local governments. Covered nonexempt workers are entitled to a mini... More...    $1 (08-11-2021 - FL)

Plaintiffs-Appellants, former sheriff deputies in Collier and Lee County, Florida, sued the Collier and Lee County sheriffs pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq., and the Florida Minimum Wage Act (“FMWA”), Fla. Stat. § 448.110. The deputies claim that the sheriffs violated the overtime provisions in the FLSA and the minimum wage provisions in the FMWA by failin... More...    $0 (07-02-2018 - FL)

Flor Andrea Rodriguez Asalde worked as a valet for First Class Parking Systems LLC. She and others who also worked as valets brought claims in a putative collective action under the minimum-wage and overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act against FCPS and related parties (whom we refer to collectively as FCPS). The district court granted summary judgment in favor of FCPS, but did so ba... More...    $0 (07-02-2018 - FL)

This case presents the question whether a defendant may moot a class action through an unaccepted Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 68 offer of complete relief to the named plaintiffs—but not to class members—before the named plaintiffs move to certify the class. In the circumstances of this case, the answer is no. We join the majority of circuits that have addressed the issue.

I. The P... More...    $0 (12-01-2014 - FL)

Brunna Martins appeals the trial court’s order of final summary judgment in favor of her former employer, MRG of South Florida, Inc., on her complaint for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSAâ€�). She claims that many material issues of fact remain as to whether she was paid less than the minimum hourly wage because of various practices of MRG. We agree that material issues remain... More...    $0 (05-08-2013 - FL)

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding unpaid wages and liquidated damages under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA�). Appellees challenge the judgment itself, as well as the district court’s denial of their post-trial motions under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 50(b) and 59(e). For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

Mario Feliciano and Augustin Milan... More...    $0 (03-07-2013 - FL)

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA or Act), as amended, makes it unlawful for an employer, including a State, to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual or otherwise discriminate against any individual a because of such individuals age. 29 U.S.C. 623(a)(1). Petitioners, three sets of plaintiffs, filed suit under the ADEA against respondents, their state employers.... More...    $0 (01-11-2000 - FL)

This is a Fair Labor Standards Act case. Luis Carlos Josendis sued his former employer, Wall to Wall Residence Repairs, Inc.,1 for unpaid overtime and back wages pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (the “FLSAâ€�),2 its implementing regulations, and Florida law for unpaid overtime and back wages. Wall to Wall moved to dismiss the complaint pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure ... More...    $0 (11-17-2011 - FL)

After oral argument on appellant’s motion for rehearing, the opinion of October 6, 2010, is vacated and the following is substituted in its place: The plaintiff Alvarado was employed as a maintenance person in a commercial office building operated by the appellee, Bayshore Grove Management, LLC. After he was discharged allegedly for excessive tardiness and absenteeism, he brought this two count ... More...    $0 (08-03-2011 - FL)

In this matter, we must decide whether an employer, who denies liability for nonpayment for overtime work, must pay attorney’s fees and costs pursuant to 29 U.S.C. § 216(b) of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSAâ€�) if he tenders the full amount claimed by an employee where the trial court grants the employer’s motion to dismiss the employee’s complaint on mootness grounds. We conclude th... More...    $0 (07-28-2011 - FL)

Upon consideration of Plaintiff-Appellant’s petition for panel rehearing, we vacate the prior opinion in this case, issued on September 21, 2010 and published at 620 F.3d 1272 (11th Cir. 2010), and substitute the following opinion in its place. In this opinion, we revise footnote six, but do not change the opinion in any other respect. Accordingly, Plaintiff-Appellant’s petition for panel rehe... More...    $0 (01-28-2011 - FL)

Isabel Diaz (“Diazâ€�) filed a lawsuit against Jaguar Restaurant Group, LLC, Jagmar Management Group, LLC, Jagmar Brands, LLC 1, and Eduardo Durazo (collectively, “Jaguarâ€�), her former employer, for unpaid overtime wages under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSAâ€�), 29 U.S.C. §§ 201–216. During trial, the district court allowed Jaguar to amend its Answer pursuant to Federal Rule of Ci... More...    $0 (12-13-2010 - FL)

This is Plaintiff Steven Abel’s second appeal to this Court. Abel, a former driver of Defendant Southern Shuttle Services, Inc.’s airport shuttle vans, filed this action on behalf of himself and others similarly situated for alleged violations of the overtime pay provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSAâ€�), 29 U.S.C. § 207(a)(1). In the first appeal, this Court vacated the distric... More...    $0 (09-21-2010 - FL)

This appeal is about the power of a district court to supervise the work of the lawyers who practice before it. Christine Sahyers (Plaintiff) appeals a district court order denying her request for attorney’s fees and costs in her lawsuit under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 201–19. We affirm the order. Background

Plaintiff worked as a paralegal at the law firm Prugh... More...    $0 (03-08-2009 - FL)

This appeal in a Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 201–19, case involves a number of issues arising under that statute. It also presents us with an interesting issue that is not FLSA-specific. Without objection from either party, the district court gave the jury an erroneous instruction on how to calculate damages. The jury compounded the error by returning a verdict for a larger am... More...    $0 (01-29-2008 - FL)

This appeal presents two related issues under the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"), 29 U.S.C. § 201 et. seq.: (1) whether a domestic service employee, employed by a third party employer rather than directly by the family of the person receiving care, is exempt from the overtime requirements of the FLSA pursuant to the companion services exemption, and (2) what level of deference is due to ... More...    $0 (06-28-2007 - FL)

Five Allstate insurance agents filed a complaint on behalf of themselves and others "similarly situated" against Allstate Insurance Company ("Allstate"), seeking overtime compensation, pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"), 29 U.S.C. § 207(a)(1), for time worked as Neighborhood Office Agents ("NOAs"). Over 2,300 NOAs filed consent-to-join forms after receiving authorization f... More...    $0 (03-02-2004 - FL)

Plaintiffs-appellants Brandon Valdivieso and David Lickzales ("Appellants"), former employees of defendant-appellant Atlas Air, Inc. ("Atlas Air"), brought an action on behalf of themselves and all other similarly situated loadmasters employed by Atlas Air alleging they were denied the premium overtime compensation required by the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"), 29 U.S.C. § 201, et seq. (1) The... More...    $0 (09-20-2002 - FL)

Plaintiff-appellant Phillip Breuer sued defendant-appellee Jim's Concrete of Brevard, Inc. in Florida state court for unpaid wages, liquidated damages, pre-judgment interest, and attorney's fees under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 ("FLSA"), 29 U.S.C. § 201, et. seq. Jim's Concrete removed the case to federal court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1441, 1446, and Breuer subsequently moved to remand ... More...    $0 (06-11-2002 - FL)

The issue in this case is whether the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 201-219, permits employees to obtain preliminary injunctive relief restraining further retaliatory conduct by their employer and reinstating them to their former positions. Although the district court found the employers' conduct in this case to be "plainly retaliatory," the court denied the employees' motion for a... More...    $0 (01-29-2002 - FL)

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