FILE: Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt speaks onstage during the TechCrunch Disrupt event at the Moscone Center in San Francisco on Sept. 20, 2023.

A San Francisco robot startup, already embroiled in a local controversy over an Airbnb rental, is now facing a class action lawsuit from former workers who say the company failed to pay them.

Former contract workers are suing the Bot Company, also known as Botco, and multiple contract agencies for allegedly unpaid overtime wages, reimbursements of expenses, allegedly not providing work-free lunches and breaks, and termination pay. Originally filed in San Francisco Superior Court in April, the lawsuit obtained class action status on June 29, with three more former Botco workers signing on to a new complaint. 

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Botco is the latest venture of Kyle Vogt, the former CEO of failed robotaxi startup Cruise. The........

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