SAN FRANCISCO – Former payroll sales representatives for Wells Fargo allege the financial institution violated wage labor laws and have filed a class-action suit.
SAN FRANCISCO – A Virginia man claims a San Francisco business called him at an "excessive and harassing rate" to collect an alleged debt owed by a third party.
SAN FRANCISCO – A ruling earlier this year by a California federal district court ruled that licensed financial advisers are exempt from overtime laws, but one legal expert said that doesn't mean the issue is so cut and dry.
SAN FRANCISCO – While lawsuits over unpaid overtime are frequently filed, the complaints mostly come from lower-wage workers. But a recent suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California involved financial services professionals – workers who don't raise this issue "nearly as much," Allan Bloom, an attorney at Proskauer Rose, told the Northern California Record.
SAN FRANCISCO – California borrowers whose homes were foreclosed on during the collapse of the housing market beginning in 2008 now have a legal recourse to question the validity of the reassignment of those loans into securitized trusts, thanks to a recent state Supreme Court decision.