Three former Target Corp. employees and one current worker have filed a lawsuit seeking an award of civil penalties, alleging violations of the state Labor Code for failing to pay employees for all hours worked and not compensating them for employment-related expenditures.
Plaintiff Pedro Murillo lives in Los Angeles County and was a Target employee from November 2016 to November 2022. Plaintiffs Isaac Garcia, Pancho D. Jimenez and Hunter Fields all reside in Northern California and of the four plaintiffs, only Fields still works for Target.
The Los Angeles Superior Court suit was brought Monday under the state’s Private Attorneys General Act, which authorizes allegedly aggrieved employees to file lawsuits to recover civil penalties on behalf of themselves, other employees and the state of for purported Labor Code violations.
The plaintiffs are seeking civil penalties only and not general and/or special damages, restitution or other damages.
A Target representative did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
“Because of the economic position of the average worker and his or her family, it is essential to the public welfare that employers obey the wage-and-hour laws so that employees are promptly paid the minimum/overtime wages that the Legislature has required for employees,” the suit states.
So fundamental are California’s wage-and-hour laws that the Legislature has criminalized certain types of violations, according to the suit.
According to the suit, Target...
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