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Have you been charged bank overdraft fees without overdraft protection consent?

Have you been allowed to continue charging to your bank debit card, even though insufficient funds were available in your account? After being able to make a charge with insufficient funds, have you found your bank has charged an overdraft fee upwards of $35? Overdraft charges can easily add up to hundreds of dollars without you knowing it!

If you have been INVOLUNTARILY enrolled in overdraft protection services, you may be eligible to seek compensation!

You may also be eligible to seek compensation if you enrolled in overdraft protection services and found the terms of your service to be false, misleading or deceptive.

If you have been the victim of these deceptive bank overdraft protection practices, contact us here or by calling 610-941-4204.

This is not an issue of banks applying current debits to your account in reverse order of their value, and not the chronological order in which they were made, this is an instance of banks using deceptive practices to apply overdraft protection to your account.

Our firm was recently approached by a customer service specialist at TD Bank who claimed she was required to show up twenty-five (25) minutes before her scheduled shift to boot up computers. Despite having to arrive early, her superiors informed her that she was not allowed to clock-in until five minutes before her scheduled shift time. If accurate, TD Bank was improperly withholding at least two hours of wages each week from its customer service specialists. And, as a non-exempt employee she would be entitled to time and a half for all hours over 40/week.

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A California-based temp agency faces charges that they have been scamming employees out of wages for years.

On December 10, 2009, a group of Illinois day laborers filed a class action lawsuit against the temporary employment agency SelectRemedy, for allegedly shorting their wages, withholding overtime, and even paying some workers less than minimum wage.

Temporary employment is quickly becoming one of the fastest-growing sectors in the job market, and staffing agencies are increasingly competitive. Companies feel strong pressure to cut expenses, which often means bidding contracts low and cheating employees out of their rightful wages, in order to turn a profit.

Continue reading " Alleging underpayment, day laborers take temp agencies to court " »

Last week, three employees of PPG Industries, the owner of the paints and stains in Lowe’s home improvement stores, sued the company for denying them overtime compensation.

The lawsuit was filed Wednesday, December 30, 2009, in federal court in Pittsburgh. According to The Washington Post, all three plaintiffs allege that PPG owes them an unspecified amount of money in overtime pay and damages for violations of The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The FLSA mandates that covered nonexempt workers are entitled to overtime pay at a rate not less than one and one-half times the regular rate of pay after 40 hours of work per week.

Continue reading " Lowe's Territory Managers Claim They Should Have Been Paid Overtime in Suit " »