Hilton Hotel LAX Settles Class Action Lawsuit for $2.5 Million over Unpaid Wages, Missed Breaks

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Unite Here

LOS ANGELES – The Hilton Los Angeles Airport Hotel has agreed to pay its workers $2.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging the hotel withheld wages, failed to pay overtime and failed to provide meal and rest breaks to about 1,200 hotel workers.

The suit, filed in 2008, covers all hourly workers who worked at the hotel from 2004 to 2011.

"For years, we've felt like machines only here to make more and more money for the owners of the Hilton LAX," said Juan Banales, a Hilton LAX cook of almost 20 years. "This settlement is a huge victory. We've won justice and respect."

Banales said he would receive about $3,800 from the lawsuit.

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Read more: http://www.unitehere.org/detail.php?ID=3579

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[Blue_Tires]

1. kick

[pitohui]

2. congrats, good for them

this ain't the hotel in violation in my humble opinion, i'm glad some action is being taken