On Tuesday night, former NBA All-Star Chris Bosh had the distinct honor of having his number retired by the Miami Heat. However, according to a federal court in Austin, TX, he also got a lawsuit.
Bosh's personal driver Michael Ray filed the lawsuit after Bosh reportedly failed to pay Ray for overtime duties that he assumed when Bosh family moved to Austin from California last June.
Ryan Autullo and Tony Plohetski of Stateman.com reported the development about Bosh's lawsuit.
In the course of the move, Ray says Bosh terminated two people who managed the family’s household in California and appointed Ray to handle the duties that they had filled, such as taking care of the family dogs, assembling furniture and taking out the trash. Ray kept his role as Bosh’s driver, and sometimes logged 70 work hours per week, the lawsuit states.
But Bosh refused to pay for hours Ray worked past 40 hours in a week, the lawsuit says. At the time of the move, Bosh had moved Ray from an hourly wage to a fixed salary and believed the new set-up exempted the assistant from overtime compensation, the lawsuit states.
Ray complained to Bosh in November and was fired less than three weeks later, according to the lawsuit.
Ray's lawyer is hoping that this legal action will proceed on the grounds that Chris Bosh — as the employer — took retaliatory action against his former driver merely because he was asking to be paid overtime.
The lawsuit was reportedly filed yesterday in the wake of Bosh's jersey retirement ceremony in Miami.
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