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United Capital Financial Advisers is being sued by a former employee who claims she experienced racial discrimination and retaliation at the firm.

Tracey Chung alleges that her supervisor would publicly humiliate and berate her, and constantly micromanage her work, according to a lawsuit filed last week in a Dallas, Texas federal court. Chung claims that she was singled out by this supervisor because she was the only Asian woman in the office and was viewed as an easy target.

Chung reported the behavior to the

FDM, an internet technology (IT) staffer, has serviced over 50 clients across the United States. The Law Office of Christopher Q. Davis, located in New York City, recently won a motion against FDM to conditionally certify an FLSA collective. Our Law Office alleges that FDM’s IT consultants were not paid overtime. While the defendant claims the IT consultants are overtime exempt, we argue that FDM has not complied with the overtime policies in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The

The Law Office of Christopher Q. Davis filed an overtime lawsuit against Allied Universal on behalf of all hourly Airport Security Agents, Lead Airport Security Agents, Operations Assistants, and Supervisors at John F. Kennedy International Airport (“JFK”).  The lawsuit was originally filed in October 2017, and is now proceeding to discovery following an Initial Conference in the Eastern District of New York.

The lawsuit alleges that Allied Universal forced Security Agents, Operations Assistants and Supervisors to work “off-the-clock” before their scheduled

Recently, The Law Office of Christopher Q. Davis filed a Collective Class and Class Action Lawsuit on behalf of all tipped Servers employed at Le Pain Quotidien’s restaurants throughout the United States.  As our Firm’s investigation revealed, and as we alleged in the Class Action Complaint, LPQ’s Servers were denied minimum wage and overtime compensation pursuant to an unlawful “tip credit” policy, denied lawful “spread of hours” pay, denied lawful reimbursement for the cost of laundering required uniforms, subjected to LPQ’s

The Law Office of Christopher Q. Davis recently filed an FLSA collective class and Rule 23 class action against Cablevision Systems New York City Corporation, Cablevision Systems Corporation, and CSC Holdings, LLC  on behalf of all hourly Field Service Technicians employed in the Bronx and Brooklyn and who were denied minimum wage compensation, “straight time” compensation, and overtime compensation.  Pursuant to our Firm’s investigation, and as alleged in the Class Action Complaint, Cablevision required Field Service Technicians in the Bronx

This week, The Law Firm of Christopher Q. Davis filed class action and collective action claims against  Defendants FDM Group Holdings PLC and FDM Group, Inc. on behalf of all “FDM Consultants” providing professional IT and business services to FDM’s institutional clients.  FDM Consultants were unlawfully denied minimum wage, gap time and overtime compensation, subjected to unlawful “kickback” of their earned wages, and deprived of the benefit of lawful record keeping practices in violation of federal and state wage and

Last week, the Firm filed an overtime pay class action lawsuit on behalf of IT Engineers employed by Align Communications, a provider of IT services with offices throughout the United States and abroad.   The primary duties of Align’s IT Engineers consist of installing, configuring, testing, and troubleshooting computer applications, networks, and hardware on behalf of Align’s clients.

According to the federal Department of Labor, IT employees of this nature are eligible for overtime pay, yet Align determined that they were ineligible.

The Law Office of Christopher Q. Davis filed a settlement approval motion on Monday seeking the Court’s approval of a $3.9 million overtime and unpaid wage settlement obtained on behalf of Financial Advisors with Wells Fargo Advisors in New York State.  The Law Office of Christopher Q. Davis is seeking class counsel status.  For information on the matter, publicly filed court documents relating to the settlement can be found here, and a copy of the publicly filed Amended Complaint can

The Law Office of Christopher Q. Davis is serving as co-lead class counsel on behalf of all Administrative Managers employed with the City of New York and affiliated with Local 1180 of the Communications Workers of America in a highly publicized discrimination lawsuit. In April, the EEOC made a probable cause determination that the City engaged in a broad pattern of discrimination, paying minorities and women substantially less than their white male counterparts. After completing its investigation, the federal commission recommended

The Law Office of Christopher Q. Davis filed a complaint against Wells Fargo Advisors in the Eastern District of New York in October on behalf of Financial Advisors in WFA’s Private Client Group for unpaid overtime wages, minimum wages, unlawful promissory-note compensation, and other practices which unlawfully reduced their compensation. This lawsuit has received press attention, and other legal commentators have noted the strength of class claims.

Ms. Hartley also separately filed a discrimination lawsuit stemming from intense harassment she received