Landscape Workers Proceed as Three Classes on Overtime Claims

A group of landscape workers in Kansas and Missouri will proceed as a trio of classes with their claims that a landscape company violated federal and state labor laws by failing to pay them overtime.

A federal judge in Kansas granted the workers’ amended motion for class certification, recognizing three separate groupings, while denying a bid by Epic Landscape Productions LLC to decertify the workers’ Fair Labor Standards Act collective.

“In short, none of the defenses highlighted by Defendants, either alone or taken together, merits decertification,” said Judge Julie A. Robinson of the US District Court for the District of ...