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Federal law protects persons from discrimination based on their race, color, and ethnicity. A class action has been filed against Union Pacific Railroad Company on behalf of African Americans applied for a job between July 18, 2000, and the present. The action alleges that the railroad's hiring policies, practices, and procedures for jobs not governed by a collective bargaining agreement allow discrimination.

On Tuesday, October 18, 2005, three African American former employees of UBS Financial Services, Inc. ("UBSFS"), filed a class action lawsuit against the company in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York alleging racial discrimination in hiring, promotion and other employment practices. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of all African Americans who were, are, or will be employed, or who sought employment at UBSFS, as brokers, non-broker officers, and other professional positions. The lawsuit seeks to put an end to years of racial discrimination at UBSFS.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in United States District Court against Coca Cola Bottling Company. The case was originally filed in Alameda County Superior Court but has been moved to the federal court system at the request of the defendants. The case involves violations of federal labor law. A case management conference before the court has been scheduled for February 7, 2005. 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 persons from discrimination based on their race, color, and ethnicity. The class has been certified in a class action filed against International Truck and Engine Corporation on behalf of all current and former African American employees of the company or its predecessor, Navistar International Corporation, who allege that they were subjected to racial harassment on the job. Persons eligible to take part in the action should contact attorneys for the class.

A class action has been filed against Morgan Stanley Company, Incorporated, a global financial services company providing services on institutional securities, investment management, credit services and institutional securities, for allegedly violating the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) by misclassifying employees as exempt and denying them overtime compensation, holding overtime compensation monies, and wrongfully deducting from the commissions of brokers. The current plaintiff is seeking to subdivide the class into four subclasses, expects the number of class members to total between 100 and 300 and seeks compensatory damages and restitution of all wages withheld.

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.

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