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A statewide collective action has been filed in Florida against Celebrity Cheesecakes, LLC. The action is brought on behalf of all current and former employees, who since April 2001, were not paid proper statutory overtime for all hours worked beyond 40 per week. The action is brought under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and seeks statutory and liquidated damages as well as declaratory and injunctive relief. As a collective action, all potential claimants are required to "opt-in" to the action in order to be considered part of the class. The employees have requested that the court issue notice to all potential class members.

A class action was recently filed in a New York district court over American Express' retirement plans. The lawsuit was filed by Paula Kritzman on behalf of herself and all others "similarly situated." The plaintiff alleges that when the American Express Retirement Plan was amended in July 1995 to convert to a cash balance formula from a final average pay formula for the calculation of benefits, the amended terms violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

The University of Washington has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit over faculty salaries. The case claimed that the UW's decision not to grant a general salary increase to its faculty in May 2002 had violated a salary policy adopted two years earlier. If the tentative settlement is approved by the King County Superior Court, eligible faculty members will receive a two percent salary increase and a share of a negotiated one-time payment of $17.45 million for back pay and interest. The cash payment will also be used to pay the plaintiffs' attorneys' fees and other expenses. The amount individual eligible faculty members receive will be based on their total earnings since 2002.

A statewide collective action has been filed in Florida against K M Contracting, Inc. The action is brought on behalf of all hourly employees of K M who were not paid proper overtime compensation and were not paid full wages as owed by K M. The action is brought under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and seeks statutory, liquidated and double damages as well as injunctive and declaratory relief. As a collective action, all potential claimants are required to "opt-in" to the case in order to be considered a member of the class. The employees have requested that the court issue notice to all potential claimants.

On September 30, 2003, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana certified a class of current and former employees of IPALCO, Inc. in an action against the company seeking compensation for losses to class members' 401(k) retirement funds.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Southern District Court of Florida against Seisint, Inc. The case involves violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act. 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.

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