{"id":4192,"date":"2020-03-18T20:35:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T20:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/blue-bottle-settles-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2020-05-22T13:25:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T13:25:48","slug":"blue-bottle-settles-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/blue-bottle-settles-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"BLUE BOTTLE SETTLES LAWSUIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bluebottlecoffee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blue Bottle Coffee<\/a> is expected to pay $1.5 million to former staff members due to a class-action lawsuit, which alleged the Oakland company failed to pay its hourly employees overtime salaries or supply them with the necessary breaks.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image regular \"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/images.storychief.com\/account_17701\/unsplash-image_575a0d1acca8a23819d22eb8952d73b4_800.jpg 1x, https:\/\/images.storychief.com\/account_17701\/unsplash-image_575a0d1acca8a23819d22eb8952d73b4_1600.jpg 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 768px)\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/images.storychief.com\/account_17701\/unsplash-image_575a0d1acca8a23819d22eb8952d73b4_800.jpg 1x, https:\/\/images.storychief.com\/account_17701\/unsplash-image_575a0d1acca8a23819d22eb8952d73b4_1600.jpg 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 769px)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.storychief.com\/account_17701\/unsplash-image_575a0d1acca8a23819d22eb8952d73b4_800.jpg\" alt=\"Gavel on black background with copy space. Concept for legal, lawyer, judge, law, auction and attorney.\"><\/picture><figcaption>Photographer: <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@bill_oxford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bill Oxford<\/a> | Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In June 2018, Keenan Patterson filed a suit that later obtained class-action status against Blue Bottle on behalf of nonexempt, per hour employees. One month later, Paige Dunn filed a similar suit versus the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nestle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nestl\u00e9<\/a>-owned coffee company. A judge merged the lawsuits together and, in September 2019, approved the settlement. The terms will be completed at an April 3 hearing in Oakland.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Bottle rejected all of the allegations in court files.<\/p>\n<p><!-- strchf script --><script>        if(window.strchfSettings === undefined) window.strchfSettings = {};    window.strchfSettings.stats = {url: \"https:\/\/bartalks.storychief.io\/blue-bottle-settles-lawsuit?id=796650075&type=2\",title: \"Blue Bottle Settles Lawsuit\",id: \"f84bf3ae-8e15-4cae-9bbe-40963ff286f3\"};            (function(d, s, id) {      var js, sjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];      if (d.getElementById(id)) {window.strchf.update(); return;}      js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;      js.src = \"https:\/\/d37oebn0w9ir6a.cloudfront.net\/scripts\/v0\/strchf.js\";      js.async = true;      sjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, sjs);    }(document, 'script', 'storychief-jssdk'))    <\/script><!-- End strchf script --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Bottle Coffee is expected to pay $1.5 million to former staff members due to a class-action lawsuit, which alleged the Oakland company failed to pay its hourly employees overtime salaries or supply them with the necessary breaks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}