A class action lawsuit has been filed against the computer services company for allegedly failing to pay employees overtime. The lawsuit was filed in the US District Court of San Francisco and claims Cadence Design Systems failed to pay overtime wages in violation of federal and California state labor laws. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of current and former Cadence Systems Engineers and includes hundreds of systems administrators, network technicians, help desk support workers, and other technical staff who are based in Cadence's California offices in San Jose, San Diego, Irvine, Berkeley, and Napa, as well as Massachusetts, Texas, and Utah.
The complaint charges that Cadence unlawfully characterizes its employees who install, maintain, and support computer software and hardware as exempt from certain federal and California labor law compensation requirements in order to deprive them of overtime pay. The lawsuit is asking the federal court to issue an injunction requiring Cadence to provide overtime pay to eligible employees as well as pay compensation and damages to all current and former employees who were denied overtime both in California and elsewhere.
