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A class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of employees of the Texas based chiropractic office franchise Accident & Injury Pain Centers, Inc. The suit alleges that the company routinely denied overtime pay to employees who had worked hours in excess of 40 per week. The workers are seeking back overtime pay and other damages.

The federal Fair Standards Labor Act requires that most hourly employees be paid overtime wages if they work more than 40 hours in a normal workweek. A nationwide class action has been filed against office supply superstore operator OfficeMax, Inc. on behalf of employees who allege that the company has not paid them overtime for hours they work in excess of their normal 40 hour workweek, in violation of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. Qualified employees should join the action as soon as possible to prevent forfeiture of benefits because of the operation of federal statutory deadlines.

Four former employees accused Polo Ralph Lauren Corp. of labor-code violations, fraud and false imprisonment, saying the clothing store failed to properly pay workers and detained them in stores after hours. The former sales associates said they were kept after work in locked stores for as many as 30 minutes while their purses and bags were examined to make sure they weren't stealing. They were not paid for the time they were detained, the plaintiffs say.

Company retirement plans can be a great investment, but diversification gives the greatest security. The class has been certified in a class action filed against the New York Life Insurance Company Pension Plan and related entities on behalf of current and former participants and beneficiaries of the NYL Employee and Agent Pension and 401(k) Plans, who allege that plans’ administrators used the Plans to breached their fiduciary duties in violation of the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) when they deliberately misinvested funds and caused losses to the plans.

Federal law prohibits sexual harassment in the workplace. A class action has been filed against business consulting service International Profit Associates, Inc. on behalf of current and former female employees who allege that they were her arrest sexually on the job in violation of federal civil rights laws.

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.