California Protection and Investigation Services, Inc.sued for not providing employee meal breaks
LOS ANGELES, May 13, 2019 The Los Angeles labor law attorneys at Blumenthal Nordrehaug Bhowmik De Blouw LLP, filed a class action lawsuit against California Protection and Investigation Services, Inc., alleging that the company failed to provide mandatory meal and rest breaks to its security guard employees. The California Protection and Investigation Services, Inc., lawsuit, Case No. 19STCV14719, is currently pending in the Los Angeles County Superior Court for the State of California. A copy of the complaint can be accessed by clicking here.
According to the class action complaint’s allegations, the company’s security guard employees were allegedly unable to take off duty meal breaks due to their rigorous work schedules. California labor laws require an employer to provide an employee required to perform work for more than five (5) hours during a shift with, a thirty (30) minute uninterrupted meal break prior to the end of the employee’s fifth (5th) hour of work and a second uninterrupted meal break when employees are required to work ten (10) hours. The complaint alleges that the company did not provide their security guard employees who forfeited meal breaks additional compensation under the law.
According to the lawsuit, California Protection and Investigation Services, Inc., allegedly failed and continues to fail to accurately calculate and pay employees for their overtime worked. The class action lawsuit further alleges, in violation of the applicable sections of the California Labor Code and the requirements of the Industrial Welfare Commission (“IWC”) Wage Order, California Protection and Investigation Services, Inc., as a matter of company policy, practice and procedure, intentionally and knowingly failed to compensate its employees at the correct rate of pay for all overtime worked.
