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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.

Continental Tire North America Inc. retirees have filed a class-action lawsuit against the company over medical benefits.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Western District Court of Oklahoma against Incor, Inc. 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 compensation, other damages, attorney's fees and cost of the litigation.

Wal-Mart faces yet another lawsuit filed by employees, this time lawyers claim that retail giant Wal-Mart has broken Massachusetts law more than 1 (m) million times by shortchanging workers.

Trucking has always been regarded as a predominantly male occupation, but women employed at trucking giant CH Robinson Worldwide claim that the company and it's male employees created an environment that crossed the legal boundary into active discrimination. A class action lawsuit filed against the company alleges that women were not paid as well or promoted to supervisory jobs as often as men, even though they were equally qualified. The suit also contends that the work environment at CH Robinson was extremely hostile to women as a result of lewd behavior on the part of male employees, including branch managers. A hearing on class certification in this gender discrimination suit was held in late November, 2004. At this time of this report a ruling had not yet been issued. If the class is certified as many as 2,000 current and former sales, operation and support workers would be able to sue the Minnesota based company.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Southern District Court of Florida against Dinosaur Tire & Performance Center, Inc. The case involves violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act. 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.