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  • September 11, 2008

    Cintas To Shell Out $1.65M Over Living Wage Spat

    After an epic struggle, Cintas Corp. has been forced to hand over more than $1.65 million in back wages, interest and penalties in the wake of the California Supreme Court rejecting the uniform maker's attempt to overturn a ruling that it violated the city of Hayward's Living Wage Ordinance.

  • September 11, 2008

    EEOC Can Investigate Despite Private Suit: 9th Circ.

    The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is allowed to investigate charges of discrimination even after the complaining employee files a private lawsuit against the accused employer, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled for the first time, in a case involving Federal Express Corp.

  • September 11, 2008

    Federal Agencies Failing Women: GAO

    Two federal agencies charged with ensuring pay equity for women have failed to assess the effectiveness of their anti-discrimination efforts, according to a report released this week by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

  • October 14, 2008

    Global Warming Raises Risks For Directors, Officers

    Faced with growing threats from climate change, companies need to rethink their directors and officers liability insurance policy and disclosure practices, experts say.

  • September 11, 2008

    3rd Circ. Sides With Cintas Workers In Union Spat

    A group of employees at uniform supplier Cintas Corp. has revived its bid for punitive damages against a union found to have violated the employees' privacy rights by accessing their motor vehicle records as part of a long-running organizing campaign.

  • September 11, 2008

    Ex-Workers Hit Metrologic In WARN Act Class Action

    More than 100 employees who were terminated by mobile imaging company Metrologic Instruments Inc. in June have filed a putative class action, alleging the “mass layoff” came without notice and violated the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.

  • September 11, 2008

    Firefighter Case Continues Against Small Tenn. City

    A federal judge has refused to dismiss a case brought by five firefighters in Lexington, Tenn., who allege they were demoted for supporting an unsuccessful mayoral candidate.

  • September 11, 2008

    Appeals Court Says ERISA Case V. Coke Has No Fizz

    A federal appeals court has affirmed a victory for the Coca-Cola Company in a putative Employee Retirement Income Security Act class action brought by two disabled employees.

  • September 10, 2008

    Iowa AG Takes Meat Packer To Task

    The Iowa attorney general has slammed the managers and owners of a kosher meatpacking plant with more than 9,000 misdemeanor child labor charges after an immigration raid in May discovered that dozens of the plant's workers were under the age of 18.

  • September 10, 2008

    SEC Sues Embarcadero Execs Over Backdating

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Tuesday accused two former executives of Embarcadero Technologies Inc. of concealing from shareholders and regulators more than $14 million in backdated stock options, after settling a related lawsuit with the company's former president.

  • September 10, 2008

    Police Officers Lose Title VII Case Against Memphis

    A federal appeals court panel has affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by a racially mixed group of 40 male and female police officers in Memphis, Tenn., who alleged they should have been promoted from lieutenant to major.

  • September 10, 2008

    Senators Decry 'Narrow' Whistleblower Reading

    Two U.S. senators who wrote the Sarbanes-Oxley Act's whistleblower protection provisions have lambasted the U.S. Department of Justice for its narrow interpretation of the law, which they say renders it largely ineffective.

  • September 11, 2008

    Neb. Wanted Illegal Time-Tracking Program: Employee

    A Nebraska state employee has sued the state for allegedly asking him to write a time-tracking program that would not allow employees to record overtime, and then retaliating against him when he refused.

  • September 10, 2008

    UnitedHealth CEO Pays Out $30M In Options Case

    The former chief executive of UnitedHealth Group Inc., William McGuire, has agreed to pay $30 million to settle a securities class action that accused him of options backdating.

  • September 10, 2008

    Judge Refuses To Certify ERISA Class Against AEP

    A federal judge has refused to certify a class in a suit accusing American Electric Power Co. Inc. of violating the Employee Retirement Income Security Act because the proposed class representative failed to show that he can fairly and adequately protect the interests of the class.

  • September 10, 2008

    New Suit Says Wal-Mart Owes Overtime Wages

    Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has been slapped with a proposed collective action by an employee who claims the retail giant miscalculated employees' overtime wages by not accounting for missed meal breaks.

  • September 10, 2008

    Judge Gives Initial OK To Apple Backdating Deal

    A federal judge has granted preliminary approval to a $14 million settlement between Apple Inc., several of its highest executives — including CEO Steve Jobs — and a group of civil plaintiffs in a lawsuit over a stock option backdating scheme.

  • September 10, 2008

    Judge Refuses To Pick Lead Plaintiff In Lehman Case

    A federal judge has consolidated four putative Employee Retirement Income Security Act class actions against Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., but he has refused to appoint a lead plaintiff and has derided the jockeying among the plaintiffs' attorneys for control of the case.

  • September 9, 2008

    Mechanics Hit Goodyear With Wage-And-Hour Action

    Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. mechanics have filed a Fair Labor Standards Act proposed class action in the same court where the company is facing a similar suit filed by its sales associates.

  • September 9, 2008

    Enron Judge OKs $668M Payout To Coughlin Stoia

    A judge has signed off on awarding plaintiffs counsel Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP $668 million plus interest for its work on the Enron Corp. securities and Employee Retirement Income Security Act litigation — believed to be the largest award ever in a securities class action.