October 16, 2025
La Colombe's hourly paid production workers have received final approval of a $450,000 settlement with the coffee chain, which was accused of failing to pay them for time spent donning and doffing protective equipment before and after their shifts, according to an order by a Pennsylvania federal judge.
July 19, 2024
Production workers for a coffee chain haven't been getting paid for the time it takes them to put on and take off protective equipment, cheating them out of overtime wages, a brewer claimed in a proposed collective and class action filed in Pennsylvania federal court.