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Case ID: 4538 | Employment | 11/15/2005
The Boeing Co. has agreed to pay $72.5 million to thousands of women to settle a class action action sex-discrimination lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed in 2000, alleged a pattern of discrimination at Boeing. The payout, revealed in documents filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Seattle, is the maximum allowed under a settlement agreement that won preliminary approval from a federal judge last year.
As part of the deal, Boeing admitted no wrongdoing but agreed to change its hiring, pay, promotion practices and how it investigates employee complaints. If the plaintiffs' motion for speedy payment is granted, checks could be in the mail to some 17,960 current and former female Boeing employees by Christmas 2005. Otherwise, the aerospace titan has until Jan. 14 to pay a court administrator, who will then issue checks to class members according to seniority and position. In all, more than 20,000 current and former female employees out of a potential pool of 29,000 alleged Boeing discriminated against them at Seattle-area plants between 1997 and 2000. Of those claims, nearly 2,400 were thrown out for filing irregularities, including failure to meet a May 3, 2005, deadline. According to company documents obtained by the plaintiffs, women typically earned $1,000 -$2,000 less each year than men for similar jobs over time by the company's policy of calculating pay raises based on an employee's salary. At Lawcash.com, it is our goal to keep you informed about important legal cases, class actions and settlements. Our lawyers offer free legal evaluations in tort cases, class actions, personal injury, and other lawsuits because we are dedicated to helping you resolve your legal complaints. Other Employment Cases of Interest Federal law laws out specific guidelines that tell companies when they must pay overtime to employees. The class has been certified in a class action filed against Government Employees Insurance Company, commonly known as GEICO, on behalf of all current and former hourly paid, telephone-dedicated employees who worked in GEICO's call centers between March 25, 2000, and the present. The action alleges that the company fails to pay its workers overtime as required by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. To participate in the action, class members must opt in no later than August 21, 2003.
A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Southern District Court of Florida against HBI Lawn Spraying, 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. The class has been certified in an action filed against TGF Precision Haircutters, Inc., and Brelian, Inc., on behalf of all current and former TGF hair stylists and receptionists who worked at any time between September 10, 2000, and the present. The action alleges that the company violated the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, and seeks damages for class members to pay them for periods that they were forced to work off the clock, plus punitive damages. Persons qualified to take part in the action must contact the attorneys for the class on or before October 19, 2004, to prevent forfeiture of benefits because of the operation of federal statutory deadlines. A national collective action has been filed in Texas against retail giant, JC Penny Corporation. The action is brought on behalf of all current and former employees involved in watch and jewelry repair who held the titles of jewelers, project assistant analysts, management associates and administrative associates from all JC Penny stores who since May 2001 and were not paid proper statutory 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 and liquidated damages as well as declaratory and injunctive relief. As a collective action under federal law, all potential claimants are required to "opt-in" to the action in order to be considered part of the class. The employees have requested that the court issue notice to all potential class members. A national collective action has been filed in Florida against consumer electronics giant, Radioshack Corporation. The action is brought on behalf of all current and former store managers, who since April 2001, were not paid proper statutory overtime for all hours worked beyond 40 per week. The action is brought under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and seeks back pay, interest, compensatory, statutory and liquidated damages as well as declaratory and injunctive relief. As a collective action, all potential claimants are required to "opt-in" to the action in order to be considered part of the class. The managers have requested that the court issue notice to all potential class members.
Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin and protects employees who complain about such offenses from retaliation. A class action has been filed against Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America, Inc., on behalf of black and Hispanic employees at the company's Normal, IL, plant who allege that Mitsubishi has continued to allow a hostile work environment to exist even after a prior racial discrimination action was settled for $3.2 million in 2001.
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