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A statewide collective action has been filed in Florida against Vogue International, Inc. The action is brought on behalf of all current and former employees, who since March 2001, were not paid proper statutory overtime for all hours worked beyond 40 per week. The action is brought under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and seeks statutory and liquidated damages as well as declaratory and injunctive relief. As a collective action, all potential claimants are required to "opt-in" to the action in order to be considered part of the class. The employees have requested that the court issue notice to all potential class members.

Price-fixing by powerful cartels occurs in unlikely-seeming places. The jury has returned a $56 million verdict in an antitrust class action filed against three Maine blueberry processing companies on behalf of Maine wild blueberry growers who directly or indirectly sold wild blueberries to them from February 28, 1996, through February 28, 2000. The money will not be distributed until all possible appeals have been exhausted.

A collection action has been filed against the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration and several of its employees on behalf of all employees of the administration who were not paid overtime compensation or minimum wage or were wrongly terminated after complaining to the administration about these payment discrepancies. The action is brought under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and is seeking unpaid wages, statutory damages, and declaratory relief.

A class action has been filed against the United States Postal Service on behalf of employees who allege that the Service systematically and purposefully altered their electronic timeslips to avoid paying them overtime, in violation of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), and the Privacy Act of 1974. The action seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages. Qualified employees should join the action as soon as possible to prevent forfeiture of benefits because of the operation of federal statutory deadlines.

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

A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Southern District Court of Mississippi against Levis Strauss & Co for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) 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. Class members seek unpaid overtime, punitive damages, attorney's fees and costs of the litigation.

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