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Federal civil rights laws prohibit discrimination based on gender, age, race, and national origin. On August 4, 2003, the court granted final approval to the parties' $1.5 million settlement in an action filed against Colorado Central Station Casino operator Anchor Coin, Inc. on behalf of Hispanic employees who allege that they were verbally harassed and subjected to "English-only" rules in violation of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The casino is in Black Hawk, Colorado. Eligible claimants should contact the EEOC for further information.

A federal judge has granted class-action status to a lawsuit filed by Yakima Valley farm workers who contend a Los Angeles-based labor contractor illegally and intentionally displaced them with workers from Thailand.

When a corporate worker loses his or her savings because of executive decisions, the company may have to pay. The class has been certified in an action filed against Computer Associates International, Inc. and Computer Management Sciences, Inc. on behalf of participants in Computer Management Sciences' employee stock ownership plan who allege that Computer Associates' trustees and administrators violated the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act by failing to diversify the assets in Computer Management's employee stock ownership plans.

A collective action has been filed in Indiana against U.S. Security Associates, Inc. The action is brought on behalf of all Indiana residents who worked as security guards for U.S. Security and who were denied proper overtime compensation. The action is brought under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act as well as Indiana state labor and contract law and seeks back pay, statutory and liquidated damages as well as injunctive and declaratory relief. As a collective action, all claimants that wish to join the action must voluntarily "opt-in" to the action. The guards have asked the court to notify all potential claimants.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Southern District Court of Florida against Milton Specter, Inc. The case involves violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act which establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and child labor standards affecting full-time and part-time workers in the private sector and in Federal, State, and local governments. 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.

Two Watsonville, California residents are accusing La Esperanza Markets of failing to pay dozens of former and current employees hundreds of hours in overtime. Guillermo Mendez and Jose Contreras Moreno and their attorneys filed a class action lawsuit in Santa Cruz County Superior Court. They're also alleging that the owners of the chain of stores, Javier and Emilia Vazquez, rarely granted workers their 10-minute and 30-minute lunch breaks, a requirement under California law.