LAX Catering Workers Sue Sky Chefs for Allegedly Unpaid Overtime

Sky Chefs Inc. was hit with a proposed class action Dec. 11 by Los Angeles International Airport catering workers who say the company calculates their overtime pay based on a formula that doesn’t take into consideration Los Angeles’s living wage ordnance.

LSG Sky Chefs employee Norma Espino and three other named plaintiffs hope to represent a class of workers who allegedly received as little as $3.74 per hour for overtime. Sky Chefs may owe hundreds of thousands of dollars in back wages, according to Unite Here Local 11, which represents the workers.

“Sky Chefs workers already complained about underpayment to ...