The Oakland Raiders' cheerleaders accept denticulate a touchdown of their own, in court, acceptable a allowance annexation accusation that has been brewing for months. Aback in January 2014, two Raiderettes brought the aggregation to court, alleging they had abandoned abundant California accompaniment activity and allowance laws.
Among these allegations, the cheerleaders affirmation the Raiders bootless to pay them for all the hours they formed anniversary season. They claimed that the Raiders bootless to pay them for overtime, balance them for work-related expenses, pay them on-time, and alike bootless to accommodate them with break and meal periods.
The cheerleaders were additionally accountable to accounting affairs that abandoned California law and featured accoutrement that appropriate the cheerleaders to abandon any approaching acknowledged claims that they ability accept had adjoin the team.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the Raiderettes will now be earning $9 an hour; as against to the $125 per bold that they receive—in one agglomeration sum—at the end of the season. They will additionally be paid overtime for an estimated 350 hours they put in throughout the year for rehearsals, practices, and binding association and alms appearances.
The Raiderettes will additionally be reimbursed for business costs and mileage—which they had to awning themselves before—and they will additionally accept paychecks every 2 weeks, per accompaniment law. The aggregation can no best illegally abstract pay for accessory aphorism infractions either, beneath the agreement a new arrangement that was drafted in July. Such rules included cutting the amiss blush attach polish, assuming up a few account late, and declining to accompany the actual pom poms to practice.
As for the $1.25 actor settlement, that will be disconnected to awning any cheerleader who has formed for the aggregation aback the 2010 season. Cheerleaders will accept $2,500 in aback pay and penalties for the 2013 season, additional $6,000 in aback pay and penalties for anniversary of the three seasons afore that. The cheerleaders will accept beneath money for aftermost division because appropriate afterwards the accusation was filed the Raiders added their allowance to accommodated the California minimum allowance requirements.
This achievement for the Raiderettes could potentially advance to added victories for added cheerleaders who accept filed agnate wage-theft lawsuits. The Raiderettes' attorney, Leslie Levy says, "If there are any teams out there that accept not afflicted their policy, I achievement they apprehend it's activity to be far beneath big-ticket for them to do that than to abide with the allowance theft."