(CN) — A former wind technician in California says one of North America’s largest energy companies systematically underpaid its workers, manipulated their hours, denied their breaks and failed to provide safe working conditions for them in a recently filed class action.
Isaiah Lee Williams-Dismuk and a proposed class of former and current NextEra Energy Resources employees accuse the company and its affiliated companies of regularly violating numerous state labor laws.
NextEra Energy failed to provide overtime wages, wages for missed meals and rest breaks and sick-pay wages at the regular rate of pay, the plaintiff says in the complaint filed Friday in Alameda County Superior Court. The defendants also failed to provide accurate wage statements, Williams-Dismuk says.
“Specifically, defendants required plaintiff and the other class members to enter their time on defendants-issued timesheets in Excel and to round their time entries downward to the nearest five-minute increment, resulting in systematic understatement of compensable hours worked,” the plaintiff writes in the complaint. “Additionally, defendants prohibited plaintiff and the other class members from recording overtime hours daily and instructed them to record overtime only when their bi-weekly totals exceeded 80 hours."
“Defendants also, at times, directed plaintiff to limit his recorded daily hours to eight regardless of the actual hours worked,” he continues. “As a result, plaintiff and the other class...
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