FIREFIGHTERS FILE LAWSUIT FOR UNPAID WAGES

A group of northern California firefighters has filed a lawsuit against the Menlo Park Fire Protection District over the time they spend picking up uniforms and other gear before their shifts begin. The lawsuit claims that firefighters should be paid for the time they spend driving to different stations and picking up and dropping off gear.

The employees’ lawsuit is seeking “monetary damages in the form of full back pay compensation, liquidated damages equal to their unpaid compensation, plus interest.”  

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EMPLOYEE FILES LAWSUIT AFTER BEING FIRED AFTER MAKING WORKERS COMP CLAIM

The former police chief in Lynnview, Ky., has had his wrongful termination lawsuit moved to the federal level. Michael Cunningham filed his lawsuit in June against the city, claiming he was fired after being injured in a crash while on duty in February. Cunningham claims he was denied medical leave and due process, and that his firing was retaliation for his attempt to take medical leave and file a worker’s compensation claim. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages.

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WORKER FILES WRONGFUL TERMINATION LAWSUIT

A California man has filed a lawsuit against his former employer, Coastside Scavenger, claiming that he was wrongfully terminated by new owners because of his “whistleblower” reputation. Jose Castellanos claims in his lawsuit that after his two sons were fired from Coastside in 2008 for complaining of mistreatment, his bosses began to criticize him and suggest he quit. He was fired last summer, and says that his boss “went out of her way to malign his reputation to prospective employers.”

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SEC SETTLES WRONGFUL TERMINATION

The Securities and Exchange Commission has agreed to a $750,000 settlement with a former employee, lawyer Gary Aguirre, who claimed he was wrongfully terminated. In his lawsuit, Aguirre said he was fired “for aggressively pursuing an insider-trading case involving the hedge fund Pequot Capital Management.”

Gary Aguirre said that he was fired because the SEC showed preferential treatment to the man he was investigating, current Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack.

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