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		<title>Metallica Drummer Accused of Stiffing P.A. Settles Lawsuit</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/metallica-drummer-accused-of-stiffing-p-a-settles-lawsuit-09069.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AbiK</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emerging Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lawsuits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California labor law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lars Ulrich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metallica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metallica Drummer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[overtime lawsuit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Overtime Pay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unpaid Overtime]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/?p=9069</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img width="150" height="150" src="http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Im-with-the-band-tshirt-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="I&#039;m with the band t-shirt, available at Zazzle.com" title="I&#039;m with the band t-shirt, available at Zazzle.com" />Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich recently settled a wage and hour lawsuit that had been filed by a former personal assistant, Steven Wiig. Wiig claimed a whole bunch of labor law violations: years of unpaid overtime (years!) along with alleged state and federal labor violations, breach of oral contract and continuing wages]]></description>
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		<title>Wal-Mart Sex Discrimination Class Action: Slice, Dice and Onward Ho</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/wal-mart-sex-discrimination-class-action-slice-dice-and-onward-ho-08977.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/wal-mart-sex-discrimination-class-action-slice-dice-and-onward-ho-08977.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AbiK</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Class Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wal-Mart Class Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wal-Mart Gender Discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wal-Mart Sex Discrimination]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Plan B in this case is to slice and dice the original class action lawsuit—which was nationwide--into smaller regional sex discrimination cases. The first case has just been filed in California]]></description>
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		<title>Ruth&#8217;s Chris Steak House Faces Discrimination Class Action</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/ruths-chris-steak-house-faces-discrimination-class-action-08921.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/ruths-chris-steak-house-faces-discrimination-class-action-08921.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AbiK</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Class Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emerging Issues]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Equal Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gender Discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ruth's Chris Discrimination Lawsuit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ruth's Chris Steak House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Workplace Discrimination]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A group of current and former female employees has filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against Ruth's Chris Steak House. ]]></description>
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		<title>Hollywood Lawsuit #2: PR Peeps Show up at Events, Don&#8217;t get Paid?</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/hollywood-lawsuit-2-pr-peeps-show-up-at-events-dont-get-paid-08834.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/hollywood-lawsuit-2-pr-peeps-show-up-at-events-dont-get-paid-08834.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AbiK</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Class Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emerging Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malakhov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Overtime Pay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PR overtime lawsuit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rogers & Cowan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wage and Hour]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Malakhov—who worked for major PR firm Rogers &#038; Cowan—filed a lawsuit against the firm alleging that he and other Rogers &#038; Cowan publicists were required to work PR events after hours (when else are they typically?)—but they did not receive overtime pay, meal breaks or rest breaks]]></description>
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		<title>Hollywood Lawsuit #1: Black Swan Interns Name Wrong Defendant?</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/hollywood-lawsuit-1-black-swan-interns-name-wrong-defendant-08819.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/hollywood-lawsuit-1-black-swan-interns-name-wrong-defendant-08819.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AbiK</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Class Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Swan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Swan Intern Class Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FLSA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox Searchlight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internship]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex Footman and Eric Glatt from have filed a labor lawsuit against Black Swan movie production company, Fox Searchlight. Indeed, they're seeking class action status. ]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon.com Warehouse Worker Complaints get Outed</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/amazon-com-warehouse-worker-complaints-get-outed-08752.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/amazon-com-warehouse-worker-complaints-get-outed-08752.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AbiK</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amazon warehouse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amazon.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CDC]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[worker's rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[working conditions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Working conditions at Amazon.com's warehouse have prompted complaints to OSHA and an investigative report.]]></description>
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		<title>Understand the Pharmaceutical Representative Overtime Lawsuits? Here&#8217;s Help</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/understand-the-pharmaceutical-representative-overtime-lawsuits-heres-help-07051.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/understand-the-pharmaceutical-representative-overtime-lawsuits-heres-help-07051.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristine B</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drugs/Medical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emerging Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pleading Ignorance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exempt from Overtime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glaxo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[glaxosmithkline-gsk-sales-rep-california-overtime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[glaxosmithkline-gsk-sales-rep-new-york-overtime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GSK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johnson & Johnson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[merck-sales-rep-new-york-overtime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Novartis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[novartis-sales-rep-california-overtime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[novartis-sales-rep-new-york-overtime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Overtime Pay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pharma Sales Rep]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pharmaceutical Sales Representative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pharmaceutical-sales-rep-overtime]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If not, you&#8217;re not alone. In fact, even the courts have reached contradictory rulings in the pharmaceutical representative overtime lawsuits they&#8217;ve seen. While the pharma reps won the Novartis lawsuit, they lost the Johnson &#38; Johnson and GlaxoSmithKline lawsuits. Those losses, however, don&#8217;t mean that pharmaceutical sales reps should just give up. In each case, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thousands may have Claim for Pharmaceutical Sales Rep Overtime</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/thousands-may-have-claim-for-pharmaceutical-sales-rep-overtime-07053.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/thousands-may-have-claim-for-pharmaceutical-sales-rep-overtime-07053.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LucyC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drugs/Medical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lawsuits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exempt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Merck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non-Exempt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Novartis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Overtime Pay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pharma Sales Overtime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pharmaceutical Sales Reps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roche]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Schering-Plough]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it looks like the little guys could have it. Yesterday, February 28, 2011, the US Supreme Court announced that it would not reconsider appellate court decisions against Novartis and Merck Schering regarding unpaid overtime class actions. Essentially, this means that Novartis may have to pony up $100 million or more in back overtime as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Labor Law—What&#8217;s New for 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/california-labor-law%e2%80%94whats-new-for-2011-06404.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/california-labor-law%e2%80%94whats-new-for-2011-06404.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>janem</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California labor law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California law 2011]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few California labor law perks for 2011. The U.S. Department of Labor decrees that employers grant time off for women to express breast milk.  The DOL&#8217;s fact sheet is posted here. Male workers are wondering if there is any legislative effort in the works to regarding equal rights in this area…they could always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wal-Mart Class Action Classless? wait and see&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/wal-mart-class-action-classless-wait-and-see-06002.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/wal-mart-class-action-classless-wait-and-see-06002.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LucyC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wal-Mary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wal-Mart&#8217;s making employment news again. Seems like they&#8217;re never really out of the news. You have to hand it to them—at least they&#8217;re consistent—consistently at odds with their employees, that is. This time Wal-Mart has the auspicious honor of facing what could be the largest sex-discrimination case in US history, if the US Supreme Court, which agreed [...]]]></description>
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