Monday, August 10, 2009

Dallas based Valero Cheats Workers Out of Wages with Labor Practices

"Even though the oil company knows full well that its workers are virtually chained to the pumps," said Janette Wipper, an attorney at Sanford Wittels & Heisler, LLP, "management has failed to lessen their workload or pay them mandatory overtime compensation as required by law."

According to the Complaint, the monster energy retailer fails to pay its corner store employees for mandatory "off-the-clock" work, "on-call" time, or overtime wages for work in excess of 40 hours a week and eight hours a day; fails to provide its workers with mandatory meal periods and rest breaks; and makes unlawful deductions from employees' earned wages, said Weinberg Law Firm, Labor Lawyer Dallas.