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A collective action has been filed in Louisiana against the Plaquemines Parish School Board. The action is brought on behalf of all former and current employees who have worked in excess of 40 hours a week, but who have not been paid overtime by Plaquemines Parish. The action is brought under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and is seeking back pay, statutory and liquidated damages. As a collective action, all potential claimants are required to "opt-in" to the action in order to be considered eligible claimants. The employees have requested that the court issue notice to all potential claimants.

The parties have reached a tentative $60 million settlement in an action filed against the government of Guam on behalf of low-income workers who alleged that the local government failed to correctly credit their taxes. Persons eligible to take part in the action should contact the attorneys for the class or more information.

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

Federal law protects workers from unexpected job losses due to surprise layoffs. A class action has been filed against the board of directors and certain top executives of now-bankrupt telecommunications provider Touch America, Inc., as well as former consultant Nightingale, LLC, of Stamford, Connecticut, on behalf of former Touch America employees who allege that they were not given sufficient notice before their layoffs, in violation of the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act.

A class action has been filed against The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Inc., on behalf of current and former employees of A&P, The Food Emporium, and Waldbaum’s, who allege that the supermarket chains fail to pay them overtime wages, and deleted hours actually worked from time records, in violation of New York labor law.

Federal labor law states that many “managers” don’t get paid overtime even if they work more than 40 hours in a normal workweek—many corporations have used the law as a loophole to avoid paying overtime to normal hourly employees. A class action has been filed against information technology consulting firm Computer Sciences Corporation on behalf of systems administrators and technical staffers who allege that the company fails to pay them overtime, in violation of the federal Fair Standards Labor Act. Qualified employees should join the action as soon as possible to prevent forfeiture of benefits because of the operation of federal statutory deadlines.

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