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

On August 31, 2011, Riggan Law Firm, LLC, a St. Louis employment law firm, working in connection with Weinhaus & Potashnick, filed a wrongful termination lawsuit on behalf of its client, Albert Dees, against The Hayman Company, a Michigan-based property managent company that manages the University Heights apartment building in St. Louis. In the lawsuit, Mr. Dees, a

In mid-August, 2011, a federal judge in Florida approved a settlement between Starbucks and a group of 553 of its store managers. This settlement resolves three-year legal battle over the store managers’ unpaid overtime claims. As noted elsewhere on this blog, the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) requires that most employees be paid at least the federal minimum wage for

A recent lawsuit alleges that the automotive parts retailer AutoZone terminated one of its employees for participating in a class action overtime suit against the company. In mid-August, a class of AutoZone store managers suing AutoZone for unpaid overtime asked a federal judge in Arizona to force the company to rehire Volena Glover-Hale, an Autozone store

Recently, fitness managers and sales counselors employed by the health club 24 Hour Fitness filed two lawsuits (first lawsuit; second lawsuit) against the company alleging violations of federal overtime law. According to the lawsuits, while the employees routinely worked more than forty hours a week, they were only paid for forty hours of work per week.

Earlier this month, two security guards employed by Sterling Mets, L.P., the owners/operators of Shea Stadium/Citi Field, filed a lawsuit alleging violations of federal and state overtime laws. According to allegations in the lawsuit, the security guards often worked over forty hours a week but, in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act, did not receive

Last month, a federal judge in California approved a settlement between Aon Corporation and over 500 of its current and former employees. This settlement resolved a class action wage and hour lawsuit initially filed in September of 2007 by one of Aon’s employees. The initial suit alleged multiple violations of minimum wage and overtime laws. According to the