On September 8, 2011, four tennis umpires brought suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Their lawsuit accuses the United States Tennis Association (“USTA”) of violation of federal and state overtime laws. The suit alleges that the USTA deprived umpires of overtime pay for their work officiating tennis matches during […]

Recently, two employees of Circle K Stores, Inc. filed a collective action lawsuit against the company. The employees are seeking recovery of unpaid overtime wages plus interest, along with liquidated damages, court costs, and attorney’s fees. The lawsuit alleges that the employees regularly worked as many as 55 hours per week, but were not properly compensated for

Recently, Marsh & McLennan agreed to settle a class action lawsuit originally filed in March of 2010 by a group of Marsh & McLennan’s benefit consulting and actuarial analysts. The original lawsuit alleged that Marsh & McLennan had violated federal wage and hour laws by failing to pay their analysts overtime. (The Fair Labor Standards Actrequires that employees be

On September 19, 2011, Riggan Law Firm, LLC, a St. Louis overtime law firm, working in connection with Sowers & Wolf, LLC, filed a class action lawsuit against Natoli Engineering Company, which is a St. Louis-based company that manufactures and sells tablet compression products and services to pharmaceutical, nutritional, confectionary, industries and veterinary industries. To read a copy

In August 2010, former State Farm employee Lisa Nobles sued State Farm for allegedly violating the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). Ms. Nobles, formerly a State Farm claims processor, asserts that she and other State Farm employees did not receive overtime compensation required by law. Recently, a federal judge in Missouri denied State Farm’s Motion for Summary Judgment. Thus, this case

MetLife recently reached a settlement in a case where a group of its mortgage underwriters sued in Pennsylvania to recover unpaid overtime compensation. The $2 million settlement will resolve a dispute that began in October of 2010. As noted elsewhere on this blog, the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) requires that most–but not all–employees be paid at

In 2004, in the case of Dukes v. Wal-Mart, a federal district court judge in an employment discrimination case in California certified a class of approximately 1.6 million female Wal-Mart employees, thus allowing them to bring a single class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart. The women suing Wal-Mart sought compensation for gender discrimination that they allegedly faced while

Earlier this month, a federal judge in Iowa declined to award a pre-trial dismissal to either Tyson Foods or a group of Tyson workers suing the company for unpaid overtime. Therefore, unless the case is resolved via a settlement, a jury trial is a certainty. Tyson, one of the world’s largest meat processors and marketers, operates several production

Recently, poultry processing company Koch Foods and a group of its employees agreed to settle a class action lawsuit brought by the employees to recover unpaid wages. The original lawsuit, filed in November 2010, alleged several violations of federal wage and hour law. For example, the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) requires employees to be paid at least