October 16, 2024
HSBC Bank said a former employee "utterly failed" to show that there was a common policy of not compensating personal bankers for work performed during meal breaks, urging a New York federal court not to greenlight a proposed class in the worker's wage suit.
August 12, 2024
A New York federal judge on Monday refused to disqualify Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP counsel from representing a former HSBC branch manager and key witness in an overtime class action against the bank, which the attorneys also defend, ruling the supposed conflict of interest is speculative and could be corrected if needed with informed consent.
April 23, 2024
A former HSBC Bank employee accusing the company of violating the federal wage and hour law by making employees work through lunch told a New York federal court the company's attorneys are trying to offload responsibility for their client's actions to a former manager.
March 01, 2024
A New York magistrate judge ordered HSBC Bank to turn over a trove of metadata from texts, emails and other communications to prove whether its bankers were forced to work through their lunch breaks, ruling that the documents requested would behoove discovery.
January 29, 2024
A group of HSBC Bank personal bankers may proceed as a collective with claims that they were systematically discouraged from taking paid rest breaks or recording their overtime hours, as a New York federal judge ruled Monday that there was some evidence of underpayment.
January 17, 2023
HSBC Bank required employees to work through their meal breaks but failed to compensate them for that time in their overtime pay, a former employee said in a proposed class and collective action in New York federal court.