A class action lawsuit has accused KQED of allegedly shorting worker pay and other alleged violations of California labor law.
The lawsuit was filed on Feb. 20 in San Francisco County Superior Court by named plaintiff Dominic Dulaney, of Antioch. According to the complaint, Dulaney worked for KQED from 2018-2022.
The lawsuit seeks to expand the action to include others who worked for KQED since 2019.
The lawsuit accuses KQED of failing to pay minimum and straight time wages, overtime wages, not providing meal periods and rest periods, not timely paying final wages at termination, not providing accurate itemized wage statements, not indemnifying employees for expenditures, and not producing requested employment records.
The lawsuit was filed by the same legal team and named plaintiff who also brought a separate lawsuit, leveling similar claims against KQED, as a representative action under California's controversial Private Attorneys General Act. Lawsuits under the PAGA law seek only civil penalties and attorney fees, but not individual damages on behalf of workers allegedly harmed, unlike class actions.
Plaintiffs are represented by attorneys John G. Yslas, Jeffrey C. Bils, Aram Boyadjian and Andrew Sandoval, of Wilshire Law Firm, of Los Angeles.