Lawsuit for Unpaid Wages Against Burns & Wilcox

A lawsuit against Burns & Wilcox filed on May 15, 2025 claims damages for current and former assistants and associates the company denied overtime pay. The Plaintiff in the case, a former assistant broker and associate underwriter, alleges that Burns & Wilcox violated the FLSA. She alleges that the company failed to pay her and other employees holding her position overtime pay. The covered positions include broker assistants, assistant underwriters, associate brokers and associate underwriters. The lawsuit seeks damages for all employees who held these positions during the last three (3) years.

According to the lawsuit, the assistant underwriter/broker assistant and associate underwriter/associate broker job titles refer to positions performing the same job functions in which employees perform identical or nearly identical job duties.

The suit claims Burns & Wilcox illegally classified these employees as exempt from overtime and compensated them with fixed salaries intended to compensate them for a full-time work schedule of 40 hours per week. The complaint further alleges that there is no exemption from the payment of overtime for these positions and that Burns & Wilcox owes significant damages as a result of their intentional misclassification of these positions. A copy of the complaint can be found here.

There is reason to believe that potentially hundreds of current and former employees may be entitled to significant monetary damages based on the allegations in the case. A previous case, also filed by the lawyers at Parks, Chesin & Walbert, resulted in a settlement of $132,000 in damages to a single former employee. The details of the settlement, approved by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, can be found here.

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