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African American employees who work as managers for the Sodexho Marriott corporation have brought a class action against the food service industry giant, alleging racial discrimination in the company's promotion process.

"Headhunters"--job recruiters--recruit aggressively from colleges on the East Coast. On August 1, 2003, the court granted final approval to the parties' $1.8 million settlement in an action filed against accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers on behalf of recent college graduates who alleged they were recruited to work for the company with promises of signing bonuses that they never received, and were never even hired, defrauding them and violating the contracts they had made with the company in good faith. Persons who think they are eligible to take part in this settlement should contact the attorneys that represent the graduates as soon as possible.

A class action has been filed on behalf of workers at the Huntington, West Virginia call center once operated by Telespectrum Worldwide, Inc. The complaint alleges that the surprise closing of the call center violated the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act and caused damage to the plaintiffs. The lawsuit seeks financial and other damages on behalf of the entire class.

Two African Americans claim that McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurants, Inc. systematically discriminates against African-American job applicants. Additionally, it assigns the few it does hire to "low-paid, menial jobs where they do not interact with the public," said an attorney representing the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs leading the nationwide lawsuit include a waitress forced to work in the back of the dining room, and a certified, experienced bartender who was turned down for a job with an all-white crew.

A statewide collective action has been filed in Florida against medical staffing conglomerate Starmed Health Personnel, Inc., its parent company, The RehabCare Group, Inc. and subisidiaries Intelistaf Healthcare, Inc. and We Care Nurses, Inc. The action is brought on behalf of all current and past employees who were employed by the company as "service coordinators", "staffers", "staffing coordinators", "on call service coordinators", "on call coordinators", "schedulers", or other similar positions, who were paid by the hour and not paid overtime for all hours worked beyond 40 per week. The action is brought under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and seeks back pay, statutory damages and liquidated damages as well as injunctive and declaratory relief. As a collective action, all potential claimants must "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 the Southern District Court of Florida against CW Lobster Company, LLC. 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.

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