TQL lawsuit

Judge rules TQL owes thousands of former employees overtime pay

A federal judge has ruled that Total Quality Logistics  — the second-largest freight brokerage in the U.S. — violated federal law and owes overtime pay to thousands of former employees who worked more than 40 hours a week.

Judge Michael Barrett of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio issued his ruling on Sept. 26, almost 18 months after a 12-day bench trial ended in early March 2022. He ordered TQL to pay overtime wages to the employees but also ruled TQL must pay an...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/judge-rules-tql-owes-thousands-of-former-employees-overtime-pay

TQL’s noncompete hurts ex-employee’s job prospects, lawsuit claims

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Wednesday is Jacob Patterson’s last day at PBJ Express, a small trucking firm in Joplin, Missouri, where he has worked for the past 15 months. He submitted his resignation two weeks ago after discovering that his former employer, Cincinnati-based Total Quality Logistics, intended to file a motion seeking to add PBJ as a defendant in an ongoing lawsuit against him over allegations he violated the terms of his noncompete agreement after leaving the United States’ second-largest freight brokerage...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/tqls-noncompete-hurts-ex-employees-job-prospects-lawsuit-claims

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