Brandy Melville has settled a couple of long-running lawsuits, which accused it of maintaining a “consistent policy” of failing to pay wages and/or overtime to all hourly employees, and running afoul of California state law in the process. As reported by Business Insider, the settlement, which follows from a final judgment from the Superior Court of California for the County of Los Angeles last month, will see the Los Angeles-headquartered teen retailer pay $1.45 million to almost 4,000 individuals who worked at Brandy Melville between October 12, 2012 and July 4, 2021. The class “will receive a net $805,000, with the rest of the nearly $1.5 million going towards attorney’s fees and costs,” per BI, which pointed to recent social media posts from former Brandy Melville employees who claim that they have received settlement checks from the brand.
The matter got its start in January 2016 when Maria Allen and Maurice Brown filed a lawsuit in a California state court, accusing Brandy Melville and related entities of “knowingly and intentionally” violating California’s labor code and engaging in unfair competition under California state law. Several months later, Katrina Lanni filed a similar lawsuit against Thomas Aquinas, Inc. dba Brandy Melville, in which she claimed that despite being employed by the company as hourly employees, on “a regular and consistent basis,” she – and all proposed class members – were “not properly compensated for all hours worked” because Brandy...
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