61 Companies with Wage & Hour Overtime Pay Issues

August 7th, 2009. By AbiK

And that’s the tip of the iceberg—the list below are companies that have either had claims brought against them for FSLA overtime pay issues or have actually settled with claimants in regard to overtime pay. The list itself, compiled from LawyersandSettlements.com archives, covers 2003-present.

But the 5th Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report, published by Seyfarth Shaw back in January, also reported that wage and hour class actions in 2008 for the top ten private settlements entered into or paid totaled $252.7 million. No small chunk of change—and that was just 2008, just the top TEN.

So if you’re thinking that working overtime without pay is just something you have to put up with for the privilege of having a job–or that it doesn’t happen too often, guess again. And if you think you might be in such a situation, you might want to talk to a lawyer.

61 Companies…

Abercrombie & Fitch ($2 million settlement)

Activision Inc.

ADT

AIG Inc.

Albertsons ($53.3 million settlement)

Allstate Insurance ($120 million settlement)

American Family Insurance

Ann Taylor

AT&T

Bank of America

Big Lots ($10 million settlement)

Blockbuster Inc.

Cablevision NY

Caribou Coffee ($2.7 million settlement)

Carnival Cruise line ($6.25 million settlement)

Charlotte Russe

Cintas

Del Monte Fresh Foods

Dell Inc.

Eckerd Drug Stores

Eli Lilly & Co.

Equifax

Exelon Corp.

ExxonMobil

Geico

H & R Block

Honda Manufacturing ($2 million settlement)

IBM

KPMG LLP

Liberty Travel

Long John Silver’s

Longs Drugs

Lowe’s Home Centers

Novartis

Office Depot ($3.3 million settlement)

Pacific Sunwear of California ($4 million settlement)

Pacific Telesis ($6.8 million settlement)

Party City ($5.5 million settlement)

Peet’s Coffee & Tea ($3.4 million settlement)

Pizza Hut ($12.5 million)

Poland Spring

Progressive Corp.

RadioShack

Rite-Aid

Rochester Institute of Technology ($2.5 million settlement)

Rubio’s Restaurants ($7.5 million settlement)

Sanofi-Aventis

Scotiabank

Siebel Systems

Smith Barney ($98 million settlement)

Staples Inc. ($38 million settlement)

Starbucks

State Farm Group ($135 million settlement)

Taco Bell

Tyson Foods

UBS AG ($89 million settlement)

Universal Music Group

Wachovia

Wal-Mart ($3.9 million settlement)

Wells Fargo

Wet Seal

Tags: FLSA, Overtime

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