Wage Law

A group of 12,000 California longshore workers have settled a class action lawsuit filed in Los Angeles in 2003 against Pacific Maritime Association, an association of marine terminal operators. The $12.9 million settlement in the case of Wisniewski v. Pacific Maritime Association compensates dockworkers for (no pun intended) docked pay and unpaid travel time, among other things. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Victoria G. Chaney approved the settlement last month. Notices will be sent to all affected workers, namely, the "casual" workers who are non-union, part time employees, mostly in the posts of Long Beach and San Pedro, who worked for association employers between April 1999 and June 2006. The average class member will receive slightly more than $1,000.