Taco Bell, U-Haul and Pacific Bell may not seem like they have much in common. But over the past year, all three have shelled out millions of dollars to compensate employees for unpaid overtime.
The three companies are just a tiny sample of businesses affected by California’s latest “growth industry”: wage-and-hour class action lawsuits. Over the past couple of years, plaintiffs lawyers have targeted one company after another, extracting increasingly large verdicts and settlements in the process. Last summer’s $90 million jury verdict against Farmers Insurance Co. is the current record holder.
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