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A statewide collective action has been filed in Florida federal court against DSI Delivery Corporation. The action is brought on behalf of all employees who (1) worked overtime hours for which they were not compensated or (2) were not paid minimum wage. The drivers are seeking back pay as well as statutory and liquidated damages. The action is brought under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, Florida labor laws and Florida contract law.

According to four employees, C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc., the nation's 8th largest privately held corporation, routinely cheats thousands of its piece-rate warehouse workers out of millions of dollars in weekly wages. The four employees filed a nationwide class action in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The workers seek $750 million from C&S in unpaid wages and overtime under the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act and state labor laws in each of the 14 states where the company operates warehouses. The case applies to workers who have been employed by C & S since 2000.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in U.S. District Court against San Francisco based North Bay Construction, Inc. The case was originally filed in California state court and has now been removed to the federal court system. The case involves violations of federal labor law. No additional information about the substance of the allegations is available at this time. Classactionamerica.com will monitor this case and provide additional details as soon as they become available.

A federal judge ordered AK Steel Corporation to pay at least $46.2 million to 1,250 former employees in a class action lawsuit over pension benefits. The 2002 lawsuit charged that the company had miscalculated the lump sum pension payment for participants in one of its pension plans. The plaintiffs claimed the method used to calculate the payments does not comply with federal law and resulted in underpayments.

What do you do if the pension fund that your hopes are pinned on can't pay your benefits? A class action has been filed against trucking and air freight conglomerate CNF, Inc., and its actuarial firm, Towers, Perrin, Forster & Crosby, Inc., on behalf of former employees who allege that the companies caused the pension plan for Consolidated Freightways Company, Inc., a CNF subsidiary that CNF later spun off, to become under-funded, costing retirees millions of dollars in lost pension benefits in violation of the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

During the 1990s, many large companies converted their traditional pension plans to cash balance plans, generating a tremendous controversy in the process. A class action has been filed against CIGNA Corporation and the CIGNA Pension Plan on behalf of certain employees who allege that the company's changeover from a traditional retirement plan to a newer cash balance plan has cheated them out of part of their retirement, and does not treat identically situated employees equally by giving less to older ones, and causing age discrimination in violation of federal labor laws.