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A collective action has been filed in South Carolina against the Aiken County Public Schools. The action is brought on behalf of all former and current employees who have worked in excess of 40 hours a week, but who have not been paid overtime by Aiken County. The action is brought under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and is seeking back pay as damages.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against One Way International, 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 Onyx Waste Services, Inc., a Wisconsin based company that operates a trash removal company in Florida, for failure to pay overtime wages in violation of the Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA).

Many company retirement plans have taken great losses because they invested heavily in the stock market. A class action has been filed against energy provider Mirant Corporation and certain company officials on behalf of current and former employees whose retirement plans were invested in Mirant Corporation stock, alleging that the executives breached their fiduciary responsibilities in violation if federal labor law when they knew of the company's financial problems but continued to encourage employees to purchase stock for their plans, sometimes while selling their own shares.

A national class action has been filed against The Body Shop International, PLC, and its subsidiaries The Body Shop , Inc., Skin & Hair Care Preparations, Inc., and Buth-Na-Bodhaige, Inc., on behalf of current and former employees who allege that the company failed to pay them overtime, in violation of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. The action seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages for up to three years of back overtime pay per worker. Qualified employees should join the action as soon as possible to prevent forfeiture of benefits because of the operation of federal statutory deadlines.

State and federal laws protect workers from exposure to harmful substances. A class action has been filed against Bechtel Corporation and related companies on behalf of workers and visitors who worked on tunnels at the U.S. Department of Energy's Yucca Mountain site, who allege that contractors and subcontractors knowingly exposed them to toxic dusts and gases from 1992 to 2003 and intentionally concealed the dangers.