Temp Agency Workers: We Were Cheated Out Of Pay
CHICAGO (WBBM/CBS) – Dozens of workers for a temporary staffing company in the southwest suburbs, say they’ve been cheated out of pay they earned.
As WBBM Newsradio 780′s Regine Schlesinger reports, the workers are now suing in federal court.
A total of 120 employees at Reliable Staffing in New Lenox accuse the company of shortchanging them on pay, and illegally withholding information that would have allowed them to figure out how much they were owed.
“In the lead-up to the Christmas season – the holiday season – they worked an inordinate number of hours, well in excess of 40, for many of the weeks that they worked prior to the holidays,” said plaintiffs’ attorney Chris Williams, “and they were not even paid even the federal or state minimum wage.”