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California labor law mandates that workers be given certain rest and meal breaks--your employer can't get around it by giving you too much work and then blaming you because you had no time. A class action has been filed against United Parcel Service, Inc. on behalf of former and current UPS drivers who allege that the company fails to provide meal and rest periods to drivers and wrongfully deducts amounts from their paychecks from February 1999 to the present in violation of California wage and hour laws.

A class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of administrative assistants employed by cosmetics manufacturer Estee Lauder Companies, Inc. and certain of its affiliate companies. The suit alleges that Estee Lauder failed to pay its administrative assistants actual and overtime pay for all hours worked, as required by the Fair Labor Standards Act. The suit seeks actual and overtime pay, interest, and liquidated damages on behalf of the class.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Southern District Court of Florida against Dinosaur Tire & Performance Center, Inc. The case involves violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act. 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.

State Farm Insurance Company claims adjusters stand to gain about $135 million under a class action settlement approved January 17, 2005 by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Anthony Mohr, an attorney for the plaintiffs said. The statewide class of adjusters sued for unpaid overtime. Plaintiffs attorneys said many adjusters will be receiving back payments in excess of $50,000.

Wal-Mart became the target of another class-action lawsuit, filed by advocates for workers in six countries who charged the company overlooks labor abuse at factories run by its suppliers. The lawsuit, filed in California Superior Court in Los Angeles, lists as plaintiffs 15 workers in Bangladesh, Swaziland, Indonesia, China and Nicaragua. The lawsuit claims they were paid below minimum wage in their country, forced to work unpaid overtime and in some cases even endured beatings by supervisors. It asserts that Wal-Mart failed to enforce worker treatment provisions of its contracts with suppliers.

Orange County Sheriff Kevin Beary faces a class-action lawsuit filed by agency retirees angered by losing lifetime health insurance benefits. About 300 former employees claim Beary illegally stripped them of the coverage offered since 1998 to anyone who worked 20 years or more for the agency.

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