A lawsuit accuses the San Francisco YMCA of shorting workers' pay, and other alleged violations of California labor law.
The organization broke the law in " failure to pay for all hours worked (minimum, straight time, and overtime wages), failure to provide meal periods, failure to authorize and permit rest periods, failure to timely pay final wages, failure to furnish accurate wage statements, failure to indemnify employees for expenditures, and failure to produce requested employment records," states the lawsuit, filed in San Francisco County Superior Court.
Lead plaintiff Ye Morrison was an hourly- paid, non-exempt employees who worked at the Y from August 2018 to August 2023, the suit says.
"Defendants typically scheduled Plaintiff to work at least five days in a work week and at least eight hours per day, but Plaintiff also worked more
than eight hours in a workday and more than forty hours in a workweek," the suit alleges.
At times, Morris was not paid for all the hours worked, was not provided meal breaks and rest periods and was not paid all of the wages due after the Y fired him, the suit says.
" Plaintiff’s experience working for Defendants was typical and illustrative," the lawsuit alleges.
The suit seeks unpaid wages and "appointment of a receiver to receive, manage and distribute any and all funds disgorged from Defendants and determined to have been wrongfully acquired by Defendants as a result of violations of California Business & Professions Code."
The plaintiffs are represented by attorneys John G. Yslas, Aram Boyadjian, Jeffrey C. Bils and Andrew Sandova, of Wilshire Law Firm, of Los Angeles.
Morrison v. Young Men Christian's Association, San Francisco Superior Court, CGC-23-610007.