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A class action lawsuit has been filed in the District Court of New York against Basik Funding, 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.

Federal civil rights legislation prohibits discrimination based on gender, age, race, and national origin. The parties have reached a $3.5 million voluntary pre-litigation settlement in an enforcement action based on complaints that national hair salon chain Supercuts, Inc. engaged in racial discrimination. The agreement will provide relief to African Americans meeting certain qualifying criteria who applied to, were terminated from, or denied promotions by Supercuts Stores in its Eastern Region between November 1996 and December 2001. Eligible claimants should contact the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for information on how to take part in the sesttlement.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Northern District Court of California against the City of Oakland. 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.

A class action has been filed on behalf of home health care workers employed by Mentor, Inc., a Tulsa based provider of home health services. The suit alleges that workers employed at Mentor between 2001 and 2004 routinely worked more than 40 hours a week but were not paid overtime as required by the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act. The plaintiffs seek an award of the unpaid overtime with interest, attorney’s fees and costs, as well as liquidated damages and equitable relief.

The court has certified a class of African American employees of Florida state mental hospitals who are seeking pension compensation as "special risk" employees based on their duties at the facilities, which often bring them in direct contact with dangerous residents.

A chemical company worker has filed a class-action lawsuit, arguing that he and thousands of fellow employees should be tested for brain tumors because of a cluster of deadly cases. The lawsuit alleges that Rohm and Haas failed to warn employees about potential toxins and carcinogens or train them in their proper handling.