California Lawyer magazine announces Patrik Griego as the winner of the 2009 Clay Award in Employment Law.
California Lawyer magazine
After logging more than 600 hours, Griego secured a significant award to compensate a class of about 1,000 rural workers who had bunched and wrapped tulips for market but were misclassified as exempt from overtime pay. Other lawyers had turned down the case, citing the relatively small amount of money at stake in the claims for minimum wages—along with difficulties in representing the clients, most of whom were transient and did not speak English, and many of whom were undocumented. “Every hour of overtime represented $7 a day that they didn’t get,” says Griego. “To many people, that wouldn’t matter much. But for them, it made a big difference.”
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