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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.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against General Fiber Communications, Inc. The case involves violations of federal labor law, specifically the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, which governs employer handling of pension and benefit plans. 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.

More than 20,000 retired Oregon public employees would be protected from having to reimburse the state pension fund for past "overpayments" into their pension accounts, under a class-action lawsuit. The suit challenges a recent decision by the Public Employees Retirement System Board to recoup the money from the retirees by making reductions in their monthly checks.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in federal court against Florida based lender Cash-2-U, Inc. 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 class action has been filed against MSC Development, Inc., (MSC), a cosmetic teeth whitening company in Fort Worth, Texas and its President and Director, by a former employee who alleges that she was not paid overtime hours according to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

A statewide collective action has been filed in Florida against U.S. Pool Acquisition Corporation. The action is brought on behalf of all current and former employees, who since March 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.