CIBCunpaidovertime.ca

In June 2007, SGM and Roy Elliott O'Connor LLP filed class action suit against the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce for unpaid overtime. The lawsuit is the largest unpaid overtime class action ever launched in Canada.

The action covers thousands of current and former non-management, non-unionized employees of CIBC in Canada who are or were tellers or other front-line customer service employees (limited to personal bankers, commercial bankers and account executives) working at CIBC retail branch offices across Canada.

The representative of the class action is Dara Fresco, a CIBC teller who has worked in more than a dozen CIBC branches across Toronto for nearly 10 years. Based on her own experience, she claims the unpaid overtime situation is widespread at CIBC among non management employees.

The statement of claim alleges that class members are assigned heavier workloads than can be completed within their standard working hours. They are required or permitted to work overtime to meet the demands of their jobs and CIBC fails to pay for the overtime work in direct contravention of the Canadian Labour Code under which they are regulated.

In order to facilitate affected CIBC employees across Canada joining this class action, SGM and REO are working with Camp Fiorante Matthews in British Columbia, Chivers Carpenter Lawyers in Alberta, Kapoor Selnes in Saskatchewan, Myers Weinberg LLP in Manitoba, Melançon, Marceau, Grenier et Sciortino in Quebec and Pink Breen Larkin in Atlantic Canada. Employees will have access to local counsel to determine whether they qualify to be a member of the class.

Details of the CIBC class action are available at www.unpaidovertime.ca

For more information about the CIBC class action, call 1-888-687-2431 or contact Louis Sokolov.

For more information about class actions generally, click here.