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Federal law protects workers from unexpected job losses due to surprise layoffs. A class action has been filed against accounting giant Arthur Anderson, LLP on behalf of former employees who allege that they were laid off during a 90-day period in violation of the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Mortgage It, 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 lawsuit has been filed in the Southern District Court of Indiana against ITT Educational Services, Inc. for violations of the Employee Income Retirement Securities Act (ERISA). ERISA is a federal law that sets minimum standards for most voluntarily established pension and health plans in private industry to provide protection for individuals in these plans. Class members seek the restoration of plan assets, damages, attorney's fees and costs of the litigation.

A class action filed in Los Angeles Superior Court seeking overtime for Allstate Insurance claims adjusters will go to trial as to damages only in February of 2004. The court has already ruled that Allstate acted inappropriately when it treated the adjusters as not entitled to overtime. That means that the trial will be for the sole purpose of determining how much the adjusters are entitled to as damages.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Northern District Court of Oklahoma against S-Q Specialties, Inc., an Oklahoma based home health care company, for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Class members seek unpaid compensation, attorney’s fees and costs of the litigation.

A statewide class and collective action has been filed in New York against payroll giant, Paychex, Inc. The action is brought on behalf of all current and former employees who, since December 22, 1997, worked in either inside insurance sales or payroll service sales and were not paid overtime compensation. The action is brought under both New York labor law and the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and seeks back pay, statutory and liquidated damages as well as injunctive and declaratory relief. As a collective action, all potential claimants are required to voluntarily "opt-in" to be a considered a member of the class. The employees have requested that the court issue notice to all potential claimants.