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A class action has been filed against New York City Health and Hospital Corporation for retaliation and violations of overtime laws. The complaint alleges that Marjorie Barnwell worked for Kings County Hospital, but was not paid for overtime and that the Hospital retaliated against her when she confronted them. Barnwell is suing for unpaid overtime compensation and retaliation.

Southern California Superior Court Judge David Velasquez granted class action certification to a lawsuit filed by three former Verizon telephone directory advertising sales representatives claiming the company unlawfully deducted corporate business losses from their wages between 2000 and 2005.

A statewide collective action has been filed in New York against the City of Newburgh. The action is brought on behalf of all current and former employees of the Newburgh Police Department who were not paid overtime compensation since December 31, 2000. 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.

An $18+ million class action has been filed against the Mayo Foundation and its subsidiary clinics in Arizona, Minnesota, and Florida on behalf of employees who allege that the health provider's method for paying salaried workers shorts employees while netting the company millions of dollars in violation of state labor laws.

On October 6, 2005, a U.S. District Court judge refused to temporarily freeze funds the teachers union seized from teachers statewide without due process in order to fight Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and several measures on the November 8 special-election ballot. Since September 30, 2005, the California Teachers Association "CTA" has been automatically collecting an additional $60 a year in dues from all 335,000 teachers and college professors statewide. Six teachers, represented by the National Right to Work Legal Foundation, filed a class-action lawsuit against the union in late August, citing a 1986 U.S. Supreme Court decision that says all union members must be notified of how their forced union dues are spent and be given a chance to prevent their money being spent for purposes other than collective bargaining.

Orange County Sheriff Kevin Beary faces a class-action lawsuit filed by agency retirees angered by losing lifetime health insurance benefits. About 300 former employees claim Beary illegally stripped them of the coverage offered since 1998 to anyone who worked 20 years or more for the agency.

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