A class action lawsuit has been filed in Cook County Circuit Court against global industrial technology company Yaskawa Electric Corporation for allegedly violating the Illinois Wage Payment Collection Act (IWPCA) by allegedly deducting paid vacation hours from employees' final paychecks.
According to the complaint filed Feb. 2, named plaintiffs Karla V. Muniz-Mata and Gabriela Rodriquez-Ayala were line assembly workers for Yaskawa at its Buffalo Grove plant from 2015 to 2020. When the plaintiffs left the company, they allegedly discovered that their final compensations had been reduced by the amount of paid vacation hours that they'd used while employees.
Yaskawa employees never agreed to the deductions. The complaint alleges such deductions would be prohibited by the IWPCA.
The suit charges Yaskawa with one count of violating the IWPCA. The plaintiffs are seeking the repayment of all deducted wages to the class, as well as a 2% penalty of the total of the wages for every month they go unpaid.
The plaintiffs are represented by attorney Christopher J. Wilmes, of the firm of Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, of Chicago.