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Barkan Meizlish DeRose Cox, LLP Files FLSA Collective Action Against S&E Flag Cars, LLC

 

Last week, law firms Barkan Meizlish DeRose Cox, LLP and JTB Law Group, LLC filed a class and collective action against S & E Flag Cars, LLC (“S & E”), a Kentucky limited liability company in the race track operations business.  The lawsuit, Perkins et al. v. S & E Flag Cars, LLC et al., was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio as a class and collective action on behalf of all non-exempt current and former employees of S & E over the past three years.  Under Ohio and federal wage and hour law, nonexempt employees must be paid at least the minimum wage for all hours worked, plus overtime pay at a rate of one and one half times the regular rate for hours worked in excess of 40 in a workweek.  The Complaint asserts that S & E violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) and the Ohio Minimum Fair Wage Standards Act (“Ohio Wage Act”) by failing to pay Plaintiffs overtime compensation at a rate of one and one half (1.5) times their regular rate of pay.  Plaintiffs seek to recover monetary damages, liquidated damages, and costs, including attorney’s fees, for themselves are all others similarly situated.

Barkan Meizlish DeRose Cox, LLP focuses on wage and hour litigation, workers’ compensation, Social Security disability, and personal injury/medical malpractice.  Over the past fifty years, Barkan Meizlish DeRose Cox, LLP has represented the rights of working people on and off the job through representation of labor unions, individual employees, and the injured and disabled.  The lawsuit was filed by attorney Bob DeRose (bderose@barkanmeizlish.com).  Learn more at www.barkanmeizlish.com, or visit our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Barkan-Meizlish-Handelman-Goodin-DeRose-Wentz-LLP/197862930238456.

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