Long Beach Unpaid Standby Wage Lawyers
Some employers fail to pay employees wages for periods of time when the employees were placed on "standby" or "on call" status. During that time, restrictions were placed on the employee such that the employee was unable to effectively engage in other personal or professional pursuits as the employee waited — perhaps in uniform — for potential calls to duty. The restrictions placed on the employee could be geographical in nature, an unduly restrictive required response time to calls, the frequency of calls received, the ability to trade the employee’s responsibilities with ease to another employee, or the extent of personal activities that the employee could engage in during the on-call time. "We'll call you if we need you," said an employer, and never called — but the employee was expected to be on the ready just as firemen are expected to be ready to respond to a fire instantly.
Employers Who Require Employees to Remain Available "On Call" or Work Overtime Without Compensation
Assuming the situation was a true standby scenario, employees may be eligible to initiate or join a class action lawsuit to reclaim wages that were rightfully theirs when they met their employer's requirements but earned nothing.
Contact a class action employment lawyer at the law offices of Westrup Klick, LLP, regarding a California employment law violation, if you believe that you were not properly paid for time you were on "standby" or "on call" status.
Unpaid Standby Wages: We Bring Class Action Lawsuits Against Violating Employers
Westrup Klick, LLP, is in the practice of law with the aim of correcting wrongs such as failure of employers to pay employees wages for time spent on "standby" or "on call" status as required by law. We bring class action lawsuits on behalf of groups of employees who have suffered the consequences of similar actions committed by employers on a regular basis.
Our attorneys are proud to have helped many employees collect compensation in the form of back pay and helped achieve justice in other ways. Many of our clients are more concerned about helping to stop illegal employment practices than they are in the actual dollar amount that they recover.
Learn what your rights are, and how to make things right if those rights were violated if you believe that your employer didn't pay you properly for time you were on "standby" or "on call" status. Contact us to schedule an initial consultation with an employment lawyer regarding your unpaid standby wages. We are dedicated to bringing class actions against wrongdoing employers.
