Wahl v. Doe Employer

Plaintiff, a male employee, brought an action premised on the Fair Employment & Housing Act (“FEHA”) alleging same-sex sexual harassment and retaliation. Plaintiff was improperly demoted after bringing certain improper acts of conduct of various corporate representatives to the attention of his superiors. Significant confidential settlement.

Vanhorenbeek v. Rite Aid

Arias, Ozzello & Gignasc was one of several law firms who filed Class Actions on behalf of all residents of California who were employed as managers and assistant managers of Rite Aid who were classified as exempt in order to require them to work exorbitant work hours without being paid overtime. Class Settlement totaling in excess of $25,000,000.00 and injunctive relief was obtained.

Sassone v. Commonwealth Energy Corporation

Class Action against Commonwealth Energy Corp. who attempted to induce persons to accept employment by offering new employees 250 stock options for each month of employment. When the company realized the arrangement did not make good business sense, they stopped making the offers and refused to provide the stock options to those employees to whom the representation were made to. Eventually, a settlement was reached for all eligible employees equal to the value of the stock options in the amount of $190,000.00.

Rodenhuis v. California Independent System Operator (Cal-ISO)

Plaintiff sought damages for wrongful termination and discrimination on the basis of physical disability after being terminated the day before she was scheduled to return from a medical leave for treatment of a back injury. Case settled for $130,00.00.

Miller v. Ruth's Chris Steak House

The “front-of-the-house” employees of this upscale steak house chain were being forced to work straight through their shifts without rest breaks and to pay for their own work uniforms, in violation of California law.

A settlement was reached with Ruth’s Chris for $1,625,000 for missed meal breaks.

Marsh v. Ameriquest Mortgage Co.

Employee alleged supervisors created a hostile work environment by continually engaging in offensive and discriminatory conduct. Employee's direct supervisor also committed battery against employee. Although the supervisor's conduct was well known to the corporate defendnat, no corrective measure was taken. Defense Counsel aggressively defended the defendants, and the matter had to be submitted to binding arbitration. Binding arbitration award was in excess of $181,000.

Lina v. Doe Employer

Plaintiff, a female employee, brought an action against a large public company under the purviews of the Fair Employment & Housing Act (“FEHA”) alleging sexual harassment, discrimination based on gender and retaliation. Significant confidential settlement.

Hardie v. California Independent System Operator (Cal-ISO)

Employees sought overtime compensation and injunctive relief for hundreds of control room employees of the Independent Systems Operator of California's electrical grid, who were improperly classified as exempt and who were required to work excessive hours with no overtime compensation. After an extended trial on the first of eight job classifications set to be tried, and a finding for the plaintiffs, a settlement was reached for all eight groups of employees in an amount in excess of $14,000,000.00 and re-classification of all of the subject employees as non-exempt. Some employees received as much as $200,000.00 in past unpaid overtime compensation.

Gottlieb v. SBC Communications

Class action on behalf of employees for ERISA violations in connection with employee 401(k) plans. Settled for $10,000,000 and other relief.

Geil v. Telemac Corporation

Computer technicians sought damages, injunctive relief, and penalties for overtime violations arising out of the practice of the billing and payment processing company Telemac of classifying its computer technicians as exempt and failing to pay them overtime. Case settled with all plaintiffs receiving their unpaid overtime compensation.