Top 100 company employee class action OK'd

CHICAGO – A group of current and former workers at a Matteson-based landscaping contractor was recently granted class certification on claims that the company took improper deductions from workers' paychecks for uniforms.

U.S. District Court Judge John Z. Lee granted the plaintiffs’ case in a lawsuit brought in Chicago federal court alleging Clarence Davids and Company recovered the cost of uniforms by taking deductions from employee paychecks without written authorization, as required by the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act.

The suit was originally filed in 2015 by four former workers who performed maintenance and landscaping work for the company.

The defendant acknowledged that, over time, it had several different policies regarding uniform deductions and, at some point, employees were not required to fill out forms accepting this deduction, according to the ruling.

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