Terminix California Technicians' Class Action

• In August 2006, a class action lawsuit was filed in San Bernardino County Superior Court against Terminix International, Inc. and Terminix International Company Limited Partnership.
• On behalf of all California technicians, the lawsuit seeks wages, including overtime pay, for off-the-clock work, including time spent traveling from company offices to the technician's first daily assignment, time spent arranging and confirming the following days appointments, and working meal periods, during which employees spent unpaid lunch periods traveling between appointments or doing other work for Terminix.
• The lawsuit also seeks unpaid wages and other damages resulting from company policies that prevented its hard-working technicians from taking full uninterrupted half-hour lunch breaks and regular paid ten minute breaks.
• California law requires that employees be paid for all time spent working for their employer, including traveling from company offices to customer's houses, and time spent calling customers. To the extent that such work exceeded eight hours in any given work day, the time must be paid at one and one-half times the employee's regular rate of pay.
• California law provides that employees who are not permitted to take the meal and rest periods allowed under the Industrial Welfare Commission Wage Orders must be paid one additional hour of pay for each day that the rest periods are not permitted, and one additional hour of pay for each day that the thirty minute meal periods are not taken.
• California law requires that employers pay their employees for all accrued vacation time. A "use it or lose it" vacation policy violates California law.
• If the class action is successful, every technician employed by Terminix in California since August 2002 may be entitled to compensation.
• We believe that the failure to pay for travel time and customer calls, failure to permit employees to take paid uninterrupted ten minute breaks, during which the worker is relieved of all job duties, failure to permit employees to take paid uninterrupted thirty minute meal periods, during which the worker is relieved of all job duties and is free to leave the premises, and failure to pay for accrued but unused vacation time are all serious violations of California's wage and hour laws.
• We believe that Terminix's failure to record and pay for all work hours is also a violation of paystub requirements and that it triggers liability for overtime pay, payroll penalties and waiting time penalties.
• We intend to put an end to these serious violations of California law and are seeking back wages and penalties due under the California Labor Code.
• For more information, please contact our offices at your earliest convenience. You can contact us by e-mail or by telephone:

Michael S. Langford mklangford@aol.com (714) 953-9700
Michael J. Walsh walshandwalsh@aol.com (877) 706-9599
Robert W. Skripko, Jr. rwskripko@aol.com (714) 543-6200