Long Beach Community College District part-time faculty settlement

Who may be eligible

Long Beach Community College District has agreed to an $18,000,000.00 settlement of claims that its part-time hourly instructional faculty were not paid for all the time their teaching required. People employed by the district as part-time hourly instructional faculty between April 5, 2019 and August 25, 2025 may be eligible, and there is no claim form: each share is worked out from the weekly credit hours a person taught, weighted by term to allow for California minimum wage increases, after up to $1,440,000.00 in fees, $50,000.00 in costs, $40,000.00 in plaintiff awards and $16,000.00 in administration come out of the gross fund. Half of each payment is reported as wages on a W-2 and half as liquidated damages and interest on a 1099, so amounts are estimates. December 3, 2026 is the deadline to opt out, object or dispute the credit hours the administrator has on file, and the official site charges nothing for any of that.

The eligibility period on the official materials is April 5, 2019 – August 25, 2025. It is limited to California. Covered: Part-time hourly instructional faculty work at Long Beach City College.

Only the official administrator or agency decides who is paid, and its own page is the authority on who is covered.

How much it may pay

Share of a $18M fund. Every figure here is an estimate from public materials, not a guarantee: many settlements pay pro rata or only after a claims review, so final amounts commonly land well below the advertised maximum.

No claim form is involved. The gross fund is $18,000,000.00, from which the FAQ says up to $1,440,000.00 in fees, $50,000.00 in costs, up to $20,000.00 for each of the two plaintiffs and up to $16,000.00 in administration will be requested. What is left is divided by the weekly credit hours each person taught, weighted by term to allow for California minimum wage increases, so no per-person figure is published. Half of each payment is treated as wages on a W-2 and half as liquidated damages and interest on a 1099.

What the deadline is

There is no claim deadline because there is nothing to file. The official page says when payments go out and how long a check or digital payment stays valid once sent.

The deadline to opt out or object is December 3, 2026.

The court's fairness hearing is set for February 9, 2027; payments do not go out until the settlement is finally approved and any appeals are resolved.

The FAQ says payments are mailed after the court grants final approval, which it considers on February 9, 2027, and after any appeals. Cheques carry a void date and anything uncashed goes to California's unclaimed property fund.

What proof is needed

No claim to file — payments are sent automatically.

The administrator pays consumers it has already identified, so the useful step is to make sure it can reach you, not to file anything. Anyone offering to file this for you, for a fee, is selling you nothing.

How to file for free

There is no claim form. The official program page, run by Simpluris (Roberts v. LBCCD Class Action Administrator), explains who is being paid and how to reach the administrator if a payment is expected and has not arrived.

Never give a Social Security number, bank login or card number to a site that is not the official administrator or agency page.