Avilez v Omnicare
Jun 15, 2016OUTCOME: $1,00,000+ settlement for after fees and costs awards of over $3,000 to long term employees
Class action for missed rest and meal breaks
San Diego, CA
Employment and labor Lawyer at San Diego, CA
Practice Areas: Employment & Labor
OUTCOME: $1,00,000+ settlement for after fees and costs awards of over $3,000 to long term employees
Class action for missed rest and meal breaks
OUTCOME: $1,000,000.00 Settlement
Class action for restaurant workers not getting proper meal breaks
OUTCOME: $1,000,000+ Settlement
Class action on behalf of farm workers
OUTCOME: Cash damages, retro. promotion and all atty fees
An employee of CalTrans claimed he was being denied promotion and harassed because he was gay. Following a three trial, the jury found in his favor on all claims and he was award money damages for his ... lost wages, medical expenses and emotional distress. CalTrans was also ordered to give him the retroactive promotion he had been denied.
OUTCOME: $1,000,000.00+ settlement and more
Plaintiffs claimed Ecology required its employees to work more than 8 hours a day without paying overtime and also refused to allow them to take rest breaks. A class action was filed and the case sett ... led for in excess of $1mil with individual class members getting up to $6,000 in damages. The employer was required to provide rest breaks, pay proper overtime, rewrite its employee handbook, and provide other benefits for the employees.
OUTCOME: Settlement (amount confidential)
8 temporary employees hired to prepare exhibits claimed that were being required to work in unsafe conditions and illegal hours. A settlement was reached that required payment s to the plaintiffs and ... compliance with the law.
OUTCOME: $200,000 in cash + a promotion
The female plaintiff claimed she was being discriminated against based on her sex and whistle-blowing activity. The settlement require her to be given a better assignment and a cash award.
OUTCOME: Payment of all losses and attorney's fees
Several former employees of this employer claimed that they were not being paid proper overtime and were not paid timely when they were terminated. Following a bench (non-jury) trial, the employer was ... ordered to pay all of the unpaid overtime, to pay each of them up to 30 days extra pay for the tardy final payments and to pay all of their attorney's fees and costs.