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Jul-18-07 Tooele City, UT "When I was hired as a systems analyst in 1997, my boss said there wouldn't be any overtime ," says Andrew Rowley. "Just two weeks later, a manager said I would be fired if I didn't get my job done—I had to be on call 24/7." They called Rowley when he was shopping for groceries, at home with his kids, even in the middle of the nig... - California Overtime: Work Visas Held as Ransom
Jul-16-07 Irvine, CA For the past three years, Gavinder has worked 45 hours per week but his IT company has never paid him overtime . Adding insult to injury, the company bills 45 hours a week of his time worked to their client—a tidy profit for the company. "My company sends me to the client where I work 45 hours every week but they have never paid me mor... - Overtime Stress Takes Toll on IT Workers: Lawsuits in California
Jul-12-07 San Jose, CA: According to findings presented before a conference of computer programmers, IT workers have high divorce rates, routinely work overtime and are routinely given deadlines that can lead to pressure-cooker situations. Furthermore, many IT workers do not realize that their rights are being violated when they are denied overtime pay by their... - California Labor Law: Not All Computer Programmers Exempt from Overtime
Jul-6-07 San Francisco, CA: As the technology industry grows and changes, employers are increasingly called on to classify employees as either exempt or nonexempt from overtime pay according to California labor laws . Although there are guidelines regarding which employees can be considered exempt from overtime pay, employers still misclassify employees, denying s... - El Paso, TX Attorney Overtime Settlement
El Paso, TX: (Jun-26-07) Martie Jobe, a lawyer linked to the FBI's public corruption investigation through a legal document called an "information" that detailed the crimes of former county chief of staff John Travis Ketner, filed a lawsuit against Ketner alleging defamation and civil conspiracy. The suit sought compensation for intense embarrassment, extr... - Courts Increasingly Involved in Upholding California Labor Laws
Jun-27-07 San Francisco, CA As more and more violations of California labor law are discovered, employees are increasingly calling on the courts to uphold the state's laws and worker's rights. Several lawsuits were recently settled that reinforced the duties of employers to their employees. In one lawsuit, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francis... - California overtime: Court ruling signals go-ahead for $16 million claim against Kiewit
Jun-23-07 San Francisco, CA In another case testing Calfornia's overtime labor laws, a federal appeals court has ruled that unionized workers in California who are required by their employers to travel from gathering places to daily work sites must be paid for travel time, unless their contracts expressly say otherwise. The ruling of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Cour... - California Overtime and Exemption: LawyersandSettlements.com asks an Expert
Jun-22-07 Washington, DC Lawyer Harvey Shulman has represented employers in several Department of Labor overtime investigations and class action litigations. In this interview with LawyersandSettlements, he explains California overtime versus overtime in other states, and whether or not an IT employee is exempt from overtime. "Let me start by mentioning my back... - California Overtime: To Be or Not To Be Exempt
Jun-18-07 Los Angeles, CA "I've been employed as an IT developer at a bank for 19 years," says Andrew. "During those years, and in response to California law, most of our titles were changed so we would be exempt," he says. The way Andrew sees it, and increasingly, the way California overtime law sees it, Andrew and his co-workers are owed a whole lot of unpaid ov... - Wal-mart wins one—but loses two—in Overtime Class Actions
Jun-15-07 Springfield, MO The latest efforts by Wal-Mart Stores to block unpaid overtime class-actions by workers in Missouri and New Mexico were rejected June 12 by the appeals courts in both those states. The decisions have left Wal-Mart, the world's largest corporate retailer, "disappointed", according to a company spokesman. But in New York, the decision we... - Whistleblowers Uncover a Flood of Wrongdoing
Jun-13-07 New Orleans, LA Whistleblowers can take on many forms - from the tough-talking advocate to the quietly courageous, both seeing a wrong and, come hell or high water, just has to say something about it. Dara Fresco falls into the latter category. On the day in early June that she launched her Cdn. $600 million class action lawsuit against CIBC Bank in C... - Zale Corp. Piercing Pagoda Employee Overtime Settlement
New York, NY: (Jun-11-07) A wage and hour lawsuit was filed against Zale Corp. in the Sacramento County Superior Court by certain current and former employees of Zale Piercing Pagoda chain of stores. The suit claimed that the store underpaid its employees and did not equally compensate for overtime. In a settlement reached, Zale Corp. agreed to pay $... - California Company Skimming Unpaid Overtime
Jun-12-07 San Diego, CA: Jennifer Teamer was told that she would be a salaried employee and make $400 weekly based on a 40-hour week. However, when it came time to sign the contract, she was told her salary would be based on 45 hours. There was no mention of overtime but Teamer knew her rights. "I started working for this courier company on Valentine's Day, 200... - Cadence Design hit with California Overtime Class Action
Jun-7-07 San Francisco, CA A nationwide class action lawsuit on behalf of tech support workers was filed last week against Cadence Design Systems, Inc., alleging the company didn't pay overtime. The lawsuit claims that Cadence Design Systems, Inc.: • gave hundreds of its employees fancy titles; • called them exempt from national and California overtime... - CIBC Bank O.T. Class Action Could be Largest in Canadian History
Jun-6-07 Toronto, ON In a move that is sending shockwaves throughout Corporate Canada, a diminutive bank teller from Toronto took a day off from her job and launched a $600 million class action lawsuit against her employer. It also sends a message to the banking sector everywhere--including the U.S.-- that bankers should abide by labor laws and fair play when it co... - Overtime after 12 Hours Spells Double Time
Jun-5-07 Oakland, CA Not long after Vince H. started working for a cement-mixing company, he was "asked" to sign a letter waiving lunch. "We get paid regular time for working through our first lunch and that's fine with me, but they should pay double time for second lunch—after 12 hours," he says. That's a lot of money owed to more than 500 cement truck drive... - Giant Law Firm loses California Labor Code case with Paralegal
Jun-5-07 Los Angeles, CA One of the largest law firms in the world has been brought to its knees by a woman who used to work for them as a paralegal. The international law firm of O'Melveny & Myers LLP, based in Los Angeles, has 13 offices worldwide and more than 1,000 lawyers in its employ. It has been around since 1885, and has had many notable partners throu... - Overtime Back Pay Cases Sweep the U.S.
May-31-07 Los Angeles, CA The LA Times reported May 30, 2007 that a handful of workers -- deported following an immigration sweep across California and 16 other states earlier this year -- are back in the country illegally and, in an interesting twist, are now claiming back wages in unpaid overtime they say their former employer owes them. A New York state co... - Lema Industries Inc. et al. Employee Overtime Settlement
New York, NY: (May-30-07) The US Labor Department filed a lawsuit against five regional construction companies, alleging that they underpaid their employees. The agency filed a wage and hour lawsuit against Lema Industries Inc., Lema Maintenance and Landscaping Corp., and Lema Construction Inc., all of Yorktown Heights; Wappingers Falls Construction Corp.;... - Programmer Overtime: Time to Change the Law
May-29-07 Tampa, FL "I was employed by a major US supermarket chain and all the programmers worked a minimum 45 hour week," says Ray Hudson (not his real name pending a lawsuit). If we were based in California where overtime laws are more progressive, I likely would have been able to collect overtime." "In Florida, all of us are classified as salaried employee...