An employment lawsuit has been filed against Houston-based Servisair, which provides services such as cleaning and fueling planes and pushing wheelchairs in airports across the country. More than 170 employees claim that they have been cheated out of pay amounting to millions of dollars.<\/p>\n
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in New York, alleges that Servisair rounded down the hours employees worked, docked employees for lunch breaks not taken and used a system for time-keeping that automatically reduced the hours recorded for employees.<\/p>\n
The plaintiffs estimate that each employee was docked about five hours of overtime each week since 2010. The lawsuit is seeking class-action status. Employees from airports in Texas, Illinois, Florida, New York and Massachusetts signed on as initial plaintiffs. There may be other plaintiffs found in Servisair’s more than 30 U.S. locations.<\/p>\n
According to the lawsuit, employees had half an hour deducted from their paychecks even when they did not take (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An employment lawsuit has been filed against Houston-based Servisair, which provides services such as cleaning and fueling planes and pushing wheelchairs in airports across the country. More than 170 employees claim that they have been cheated out of pay amounting…<\/span><\/p>\n