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A class action filed in Los Angeles Superior Court seeking overtime for Allstate Insurance claims adjusters will go to trial as to damages only in February of 2004. The court has already ruled that Allstate acted inappropriately when it treated the adjusters as not entitled to overtime. That means that the trial will be for the sole purpose of determining how much the adjusters are entitled to as damages.

Employee stock option plans can be an effective investment if they are managed correctly. The class has been certified in an action filed against manufacturer Amsted Industries, Inc. on behalf of non-retired employee stock ownership plan participants who allege that the company's trustees and administrators violated the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act by improperly reducing the benefits obtainable by participants. Eligible employees may contact the class attorneys for further information.

Federal law protects workers from unexpected job losses due to surprise layoffs. A class action has been filed against the board of directors and certain top executives of now-bankrupt telecommunications provider Touch America, Inc., as well as former consultant Nightingale, LLC, of Stamford, Connecticut, on behalf of former Touch America employees who allege that they were not given sufficient notice before their layoffs, in violation of the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act.

A lawsuit brought by former officers and a current employees of the Lake Worth, Florida police department claims the department violated employees privacy by recording their personal phone conversations.

According to a class-action lawsuit filed in Miami, the financial department of Dell violated federal anti-discrimination laws by denying loans to Hispanics who do not speak English. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of businessman Juan Carlos Arteaga, alleging violations of the Federal Equal Credit Opportunity Act. Arteaga's attorney is seeking an injunction against Dell to prevent the company from discriminating on the basis of language to other potential customers as the case is pending.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Southern District Court of Florida against Gemcopainting, 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.

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