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According to four employees, C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc., the nation's 8th largest privately held corporation, routinely cheats thousands of its piece-rate warehouse workers out of millions of dollars in weekly wages. The four employees filed a nationwide class action in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The workers seek $750 million from C&S in unpaid wages and overtime under the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act and state labor laws in each of the 14 states where the company operates warehouses. The case applies to workers who have been employed by C & S since 2000.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Northern District Court of Illinois against Frank Zanotti Title Company, 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.

California law makes it illegal for companies to take away, or "charge back" an employee's commissions in certain circumstances. A class action has been filed against Airtouch Cellular of California, Verizon Wireless Services, LLC, and Cellco Partnership on behalf of current and former Verizon sales employees who have worked in a California-based telemarketing center or retail outlet, alleging that the company compels them to return commissions on failed wireless subscriptions and also fails to calculate overtime pay properly, in violation of California unfair business practices and labor laws.

A statewide collective action has been filed in Florida against Spring Park Drug, Inc. The action is brought on behalf of all current and former employees, who since February 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 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 employees have requested that the court issue notice to all potential class members.

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.

Former workers of Havens Steel Company reached a preliminary settlement in a lawsuit filed over a dispute of an employee stock ownership plan. The proposed settlement of the class-action suit, which includes about 500 former employees and retirees, canceled a trial that was scheduled to begin early April 2006.

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