Title Specialists, Title Officers, and Title Assistants in California: Are you Owed Overtime Pay?

If you are a Title Specialist, Title Officer or Title Assistant in California, did you know that you could be owed a great deal of overtime pay if it is determined you have been misclassified as exempt from overtime?

It is true. Many employees in the title industry work grueling hours, for no overtime pay and no meal and break periods. In many instances, title employees in California are misclassified as exempt from overtime pay and as such work far in excess of 8 hours in a day or 40 hours in a week.

Most Title Specialists, Title Officers and Title Assistant work under tightly regulated procedures and processes and have little independent discretion or fall under any other overtime exemption. As such, it is possible that these employees are entitled to overtime pay. Even better, an employee in California can seek back overtime, interest, and penalties up to four years back.

Several of the most widely known title companies in California are Chicago Title Company, Fidelity National Financial, First American Title and Lawyers Title Insurance Corporation  , and  Land America  who unfortunately recently filed for Bankruptcy Chapter 11.

California class action attorneys have filed and prevailed on several class action lawsuits in California yielding millions of dollars for their clients in cases related to overtime pay benefiting title employees.

Suggestions

1. If you worked overtime in California within the past 4 years as an employee in the title industry, it is important to talk to a California labor lawyer.
2. In preparing for meeting with this lawyer gather one pay stub, your performance evaluations, and your job descriptions.
3. Contact as many employees that performed the same or similar job and ask them to consider speaking to the attorney as well.
4. If you case is accepted, the California labor law attorney may elect to file a California class action case.