Telecommunication Company Settles Overtime Claims

A large telecommunications company, Charter Communications, recently settled a lawsuit brought against the company by 8,000 workers who claimed that they were not paid their just wages. Kelsey Volkmann of the St. Louis Business Journal had these details:

Workers claimed that Charter failed to compensate field technicians for a variety of tasks, including loading and unloading the company vehicle, travel time and uncompensated pre-work activities such as gathering and stocking.

As hard working citizens, those workers from Charter took action to ensure that they would receive compensation for the services they provided to the company. Companies have the responsibility to honor their contracts with their employees, and to pay them for legitimate work. Exploitation of employees is not only an injustice to those it directly affects, but also to our society, as it breaches the trust and expectations we place in corporations. Whether the transgressions stem from failure to pay overtime wages after an employee works more than 40 hours a week or the improper placement of non-managerial workers in salaried management positions, these violations of the law should not be tolerated. At Perenich The Law Firm, we serve as Tampa Bay employment claims attorneys who fight for the rights of those that are taken advantage of by companies that show little regard for their employees.