FairLaw Firm Gets Collective Action Certified Against Treecycle Land Clearing, Inc

PALM BEACH, Fla. - Feb. 7, 2018 - PRLog -- Freese vs. Treecycle Land Clearing, Inc., et al., a lawsuit involving allegations of unpaid overtime wages in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), has been certified as a collective action by a federal court in Florida. The Plaintiff in this action, represented by Brian Pollock of FairLaw Firm, was an equipment operator who claims that he did not receive proper overtime compensation for working more than 40 hours in a workweek because his employers failed to pay overtime for the time he spent loading, unloading, and preparing before and after traveling to worksites, and also for not paying overtime wages for traveling to and from the worksites.

In this  collective action lawsuit, the equipment operator alleges that Trecycle Land Clearing, Inc. and Sean M. Casey violated, and continue to violate, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), by failing to properly compensate him for overtime hours worked by their equipment operators since October 15, 2014.

Freese vs. Treecycle Land Clearing, Inc. (Case Number: 17-CV-81169-BLOOM/HOPKINS, was filed in the District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The presiding judge is Judge Beth Bloom. The Honorable Beth Bloom certified the case as a "collective action" on April 7, 2018, so that the case can now proceed on behalf of other employed equipment operators who worked for the Defendants and who were subject to the same pay practices.

FairLaw Firm overtime attorney Brian H. Pollock (http://www.fairlawattorney.com), is representing the equipment operators in an effort to recover the unpaid overtime wages that resulted from Defendants' failure to include the preparation and trip time when paying overtime wages.  According to a federal law known as the FLSA, non-exempt employees are entitled to receive at least a minimum wage for all hours worked and time-and-a-half pay for all overtime hours (hours worked over forty) in a given workweek.

All eqiupment operators who currently work for and/or who used to work for Treecycle Land Clearing, Inc. since October 18, 2014 are eligible to join the case.  For more information about Freese vs. Treecycle Land Clearing, Inc., or to join the case, please contact us at (305)230-4884 or (866)281-9288 or visit http://www.fairlawattorney.com.