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	<title>lawyersandsettlements.com &#187; Employment</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>California Overtime at the Car Wash: Are Inspection Numbers for Real?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AbiK</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[California Overtime]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Overtime Pay]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By now you&#8217;ve read the news about the California Labor Commissioner imposing close to $1 million in fines after a statewide investigation of the California carwash industry.
The investigation went as follows:
42 investigators
did
230 car wash inspections
netting
141 citations
for
103 car wash businesses 
The citations issued total $916,711.
Ok, great. There&#8217;s some progress. But here&#8217;s the part I&#8217;m having a hard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week Adjourned: 10.30.09</title>
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		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/week-adjourned-103009-01726.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LucyC</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Asbestos Mesothelioma]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Week Adjourned]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Asbestos]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bank of America]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wal-Mart]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wells Fargo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Age of the Overtime Class Action&#8230;
Top Class Actions
Wells, It&#8217;s Official&#8230; Wells Fargo is now facing a wages and overtime class action filed by technical support staff who allege that they were not paid for time worked in excess of 40 hours per week.
The suit covers all network engineers, operating systems engineers, information security analysts, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Right To Work vs. Employment at Will: what&#8217;s the difference?</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/right-to-work-vs-employment-at-will-whats-the-difference-01710.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/right-to-work-vs-employment-at-will-whats-the-difference-01710.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristine B</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pleading Ignorance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Employment Law]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Labor Law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lately, I&#8217;ve been researching state employment laws (for the record, I do have a life). And I&#8217;ve come across a lot of people who are confused &#8220;right to work&#8221; and &#8220;employment at will.&#8221; Can&#8217;t say I blame them. So, this week Pleading Ignorance is setting the record straight about&#8230;
The difference between &#8221;right to work&#8221; and &#8220;employment at will&#8221;
Both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overtime Pay: How do I Know if my Employer Owes me Money?</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/overtime-pay-how-do-i-know-if-my-employer-owes-me-money-01498.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/overtime-pay-how-do-i-know-if-my-employer-owes-me-money-01498.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristine B</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pleading Ignorance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[FLSA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Overtime]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Overtime Pay]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, it sounds like a bad Whitney Houston flashback&#8230;&#8221;How will I know if he&#8230;&#8221; Whoa there—back on topic. Overtime pay? Good question. So that&#8217;s the focus of this week&#8217;s Pleading Ignorance. 
If you&#8217;ve opened a newspaper lately—or looked at virtually any news website including our own recent post on 61 companies with OT pay issues—you&#8217;ll know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jack in the Box workers most likely get Jack in Overtime Lawsuits</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/jack-in-the-box-workers-most-likely-get-jack-in-overtime-lawsuits-01489.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/jack-in-the-box-workers-most-likely-get-jack-in-overtime-lawsuits-01489.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AbiK</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[California Overtime]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jack in the Box]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/?p=1489</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey, these are tough times. Just about every business is feeling the pinch and some, like a collection of Jack in the Box franchises owned by Roseville, California developer Abe Alizadeh, are feeling so pinched that they&#8217;re filing for bankruptcy protection. &#8220;Protection&#8221; is a key word here—and it&#8217;s the word folks like Patricia Morgan are focusing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Whistleblower Movie: A True Story, But Is It Real?</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/another-whistleblower-movie-a-true-story-but-is-it-real-01400.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/another-whistleblower-movie-a-true-story-but-is-it-real-01400.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter West</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[John Kopchinski]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pfizer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Whistleblowers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The whistleblower has come to the big screen yet again, although the movie starring Matt Damon that debuted Friday—The Informant—was hardly the same story as whistleblower John Kopchinski, whose six-year battle with Pfizer recently ended with a &#8220;qui tam&#8221; lawsuit settlement of $51.5 million for him.
 
For all his trouble in blowing the whistle on Archer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unpaid Overtime: Wet Seal hits rewind &amp; plays it again?</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/unpaid-overtime-wet-seal-hits-rewind-plays-it-again-01167.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/unpaid-overtime-wet-seal-hits-rewind-plays-it-again-01167.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AbiK</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Overtime]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[wet seal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Overtime pay lawsuits are a big topic at LawyersAndSettlements.com—we report a lot on unpaid overtime settlements. So much, in fact, that it can take some effort to keep track of it all. Case in point, our recent post on 61 companies that have had overtime lawsuits; the post was only about overtime pay and it only listed a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sex Harassment on the Job: Who&#8217;s Sexiest of All?</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/sex-harassment-on-the-job-whos-sexiest-of-all-01065.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/sex-harassment-on-the-job-whos-sexiest-of-all-01065.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AbiK</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sexual Harassment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the quintessential and stereotypical office drama played out in a tabloid: bombshell secretary gets her butt pinched by male higher-up. Or worse. Think that sounds pretty accurate for most sexual harassment cases? Think again. The &#8220;sex magnet&#8221; isn&#8217;t quite who you probably think it is.
A new study just reported that it&#8217;s actually not lower [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At Risk of a Layoff? Make sure you&#8217;re WARNed</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/at-risk-of-a-layoff-make-sure-youre-warned-01040.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/at-risk-of-a-layoff-make-sure-youre-warned-01040.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AbiK</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pleading Ignorance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[WARN Act]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When facing an employment layoff, typically there&#8217;s a lot of closed door meetings, hush-hush hallway conversations, and if you&#8217;ve been involved with a major corporate &#8220;restructuring&#8221;, there can even be code names. Lots and lots of secrecy. But when it comes time to actually announce mass layoffs, there&#8217;s a little thing called the The Worker Adjustment and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 Greatest Whistleblower Movies of All-time</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/4-greatest-whistleblower-movies-of-all-time-01029.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/4-greatest-whistleblower-movies-of-all-time-01029.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AbiK</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Whistleblowers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You may not agree, but these four movies put the whole concept of whistleblowing and whistleblowers on the map and they brought to life the raw nerve, courage and strength it takes to go up against a major corporation or organization. What&#8217;s really great about this list is that each is based on a real-life story. [...]]]></description>
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