Verizon faces time and attendance litigation

Earlier this month, Verizon workers in the New York North West area claimed the company refused to pay time-and-a-half to union workers who racked up overtime employee attendance by repairing telephone lines in the wake of Hurricane Irene, the Daily Caller reports.

Tracey Edwards, Verizon regional president for the area, denied the allegations - including the accusation that the alleged withholding of overtime payment was punishment for two weeks of striking in August.

Now, Verizon is facing more overtime-related problems, this time as a result of California workers filing suit over the company's alleged misclassification of them in order to avoid having to pay them overtime.

Under California law, employees who are not classified as exempt must be paid overtime for working more than eight hours in one day or 40 hours per week. The group of first level local managers leveled a class action lawsuit against the company, arguing that because the tasks they perform are predominately not managerial in nature, they should not be excluded from being paid overtime.