For 15 hours a day, seven days a week, Ruth Rivas worked as a housekeeper at the , a four-star hotel in Telluride, she says.
She cleaned hotel rooms and bathrooms, washed sheets and towels. Then, in the afternoon, she scrubbed the lobby and various employee areas and public spaces at the hotel.
All of her work occurred in the same complex and was directed by hotel management, she alleged in a proposed class action lawsuit filed Wednesday in San Miguel County District Court.
But every 15 days, Rivas and her fellow housekeepers received two checks. One came from Telluride Ski & Golf, which owns the hotel resort as well as the world-famous ski area down the road. The other check came from Csaba Albas, a recruiter and subcontractor, the complaint alleges.
This arrangement allows Telluride Ski & Golf, the named plaintiff in the lawsuit, to avoid paying all the overtime that Rivas and her colleagues were owed under Colorado wage and hour laws, she alleged in the legal filing.
The lawsuit does not say how much Rivas believes she is owed in unpaid overtime.
“The reason that we have this case is because I’m not just speaking for myself, I’m speaking on behalf of all these employees living with these injustices,” Rivas said in an interview in Spanish through an interpreter.
A Telluride Ski & Golf representative said the company had not seen the lawsuit and could not offer comment.
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