More than 170 employees of Servisair, a Houston-based aviation service provider, are suing their employer for using a time and attendance system that intentionally reduced the number of hours a worker reports in the system. The company provides a variety of services, such as cleaning planes, refueling jets and pushing wheelchairs in airports nationwide, but the employees cite several examples of record-keeping violations.

The lawsuit that was filed in New York alleges the timekeeping system the company uses deducts an average of 30 minutes for lunches that were not taken by employees. The plaintiffs also claim the time and attendance system rounds off the times at which workers punch in and out. For example, if a worker arrived at work at 7:30 a.m. and left at 6:30 p.m., the employee would be compensated as though he or she worked from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The lawsuit claims that the employer knowingly manipulated the system for the company's financial gain.

The group filing the suit are seeking class-action status and assert they are owed back pay for an average of five hours per week in overtime wages since 2010. The law firm of attorney Andrew Glenn has successfully sued the company in the Florida three times in the past year for similar infractions.

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