February 26, 2021
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. has agreed to pay $15 million to resolve class claims that the restaurant chain improperly failed to pay overtime to management trainees based on a controversial U.S. Department of Labor overtime expansion rule, according to a motion filed Friday in New Jersey federal court.
October 10, 2019
A former Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. management trainee asked a federal court to allow her wage dispute to advance as a collective action late Wednesday, saying she's tackled the burden of showing the trainees were all exposed to the same illegal policy denying overtime pay for toiling more than 40 hours a week.
April 04, 2018
A New Jersey federal court has agreed to pause an overtime wage dispute with Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. while the Fifth Circuit considers a contempt order levied against the attorneys who helped file the proposed collective action, which allegedly violated a Texas court's decision to block the U.S. Department of Labor rule underpinning the case.
March 21, 2018
Attorneys who were held in contempt for filing an overtime pay suit against Chipotle based on a rule a Texas federal judge had blocked asked the judge Tuesday to stay the contempt order while they appeal to the Fifth Circuit.
March 19, 2018
A Texas federal judge on Monday held in contempt lawyers from Outten & Golden LLP and Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC and their client, saying they had improperly pursued a Fair Labor Standards Act collective action against Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. based on an invalidated overtime rule.
November 14, 2017
A New Jersey federal judge agreed Tuesday to stay a Chipotle employee's proposed overtime class action while the burrito chain awaits a Texas federal court's decision on a bid to hold the worker and her attorneys in contempt for ignoring a court order blocking the U.S. Department of Labor's expanded overtime rule.
September 18, 2017
A Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. worker who filed a putative class action in New Jersey seeking overtime pay under an enjoined U.S. Department of Labor overtime rule change urged a Texas federal judge on Monday not to hold her and her counsel in contempt over the suit.
August 01, 2017
A putative class action brought by Chipotle employees in New Jersey alleging that they are owed overtime under U.S. Department of Labor regulations that were enjoined in November merits a contempt finding against the workers' counsel, Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. told a Texas federal judge on Tuesday.