Group files lawsuit on behalf of warehouse workers
Southtown Star
Cindy Cain
A lawsuit that claims employees at the Walmart warehouse in Elwood are not receiving the pay they earned was filed Thursday in federal court in Chicago.
The complaint against Roadlink Workforce Solutions is the sixth such lawsuit filed against companies Walmart contracts with to staff or run its warehouse.
Joliet-based Warehouse Workers for Justice assisted the employees in their legal action as part of its campaign to improve working conditions in area warehouses.
Chris Williams, a Warehouse Workers for Justice attorney, said the Chicago lawsuit alleges employees are not being paid wages “they are promised, entitled to by law and that they have earned” at the Elwood warehouse.
The workers are not being paid overtime and, in some cases, they are earning less than minimum wage, he added.
“I worked for Roadlink Workforce Solutions in the Walmart warehouse,” plaintiff Vincent Hoffmann said in a press release. “They had us working 10 or more hours a day lifting heavy boxes, but then didn’t pay me the overtime that I had worked so hard for. It’s hard enough trying to make ends meet and then they cheat us out of what we earned.”