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A statewide collective action has been filed in Florida against Southeast Milk, Inc. The action is brought on behalf of all current and former employees of Southeast who have not been paid overtime wages for all hours worked in excess of 40 per week. The action is brought under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and seeks statutory and liquidated damages as well as back pay, injunctive and declaratory relief. As a collective action, all potential claimants must "opt-in" and consent to be members of the class. The employees have requested that the court issue notice to all potential claimants.

A class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of hourly workers employed at Coca Cola Enterprises, 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.

A statewide collective action has been filed in Florida against Joysi Group, Inc. and subsidiary, Vijay Group, Inc. Joysi and Vijay operate convenience stores in South Florida, in particular the "Joysi Food Market" and "S&G Market". The action is brought on behalf of all current and former employees who, since December 31, 2000, were deprived of proper overtime pay by Joysi and Vijay. The action is brought under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and seeks back pay, statutory damages, liquidated damages as well as injunctive and declaratory relief. As a collective action, all potential claimants must voluntarily "opt-in" to the case in order to be considered part of the class. The employees have requested that the court issue notice to all potential claimants.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in U.S. District Court against San Francisco based North Bay Construction, Inc. The case was originally filed in California state court and has now been removed to the federal court system. 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.

Retirement plans are often highly complex, especially when they encompass investment programs. Several class actions have been filed against Citigroup, Inc. and its subsidiaries on behalf of former employees who allege that, from 1989 to the present, the companies induced them to buy Citigroup stock and then made them forfeit it when they left the company's employment, in violation of federal securities laws.

California labor law requires that employees working on commission be given similar consideration as hourly workers. A class action has been filed against technology merchant Circuit City Stores West Coast, Inc. and its parent Circuit City Stores, Inc. on behalf of all "commission only" salespersons who worked at a Circuit City Store in California from March 1999 to March 2003, alleging that the company failed to pay them for work they performed as required by California labor law.

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