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  • September 2, 2008

    SunTrust Faces ERISA Suit Over Subprime Loss

    SunTrust Banks Inc. and 20 company officers and executives are facing a class action accusing them of investing employee retirement benefits in company stock despite substantial investment risks stemming from the bank's subprime exposure.

  • September 2, 2008

    Hospital Operator Settles Pregnancy Bias Case

    Hospital operator Catholic Healthcare West has entered into a consent decree with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to resolve claims that one of its hospitals discriminated against pregnant workers by limiting the procedures on which they were allowed to work.

  • August 29, 2008

    Okla. Appeals Injunction Of Illegal Worker Law

    The state of Oklahoma has challenged a federal judge's order blocking employment provisions of a sweeping state law regarding illegal immigration.

  • August 29, 2008

    No More Discovery From Sprint In FLSA Case: Judge

    A federal judge has ruled that Sprint Nextel Corp. does not need to produce documents concerning employees' complaints against it, and a witness to testify about those complaints, as part of a proposed class action alleging that the company has not paid its sales representatives for all the hours they worked.

  • August 29, 2008

    Hofstra Looks To Overturn Class Cert. In FLSA Suit

    Two weeks after the class was approved, Hofstra University has asked a federal court to reconsider a magistrate judge's grant of conditional class certification to a group of former student employees who accuse the institution of failing to pay them overtime wages while they worked for the school.

  • August 29, 2008

    Class Denied Certification In EMC Sex Bias Suit

    A judge has denied class certification to a group of current and former female employees at computer software producer EMC Corp. who claimed that the company's lax attitude toward sexual discrimination, harassment and retaliation made gender bias a “de facto company policy and standard operating procedure.”

  • August 29, 2008

    Sea Containers' Ch. 11 Plan Hits ERISA Roadblock

    The federal agency that administers the pension plan termination program under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act has objected to the reorganization plan filed by Sea Containers Ltd. in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, claiming it does not address the debtors' responsibilities to the pension plan of a non-debtor subsidiary.

  • August 29, 2008

    Cable Installers Sue Comcast Over FLSA Violations

    Cable technicians for telecommunications giant Comcast Corp. have filed a putative class action against their employer, alleging that the company misclassified them as independent workers in order to avoid paying them overtime wages and claiming that such labor law violations have run rampant on the Gulf Coast since Hurricane Katrina.

  • August 29, 2008

    CORRECTED: Verizon May Have Underpaid Retirees: Judge

    A judge has ruled that Verizon Communications Inc. may have incorrectly calculated the benefits given to some of its former employees, a decision that could make the company liable for billions in damages.

  • August 29, 2008

    Charter Communications Hit With Overtime Suit

    Charter Communications Inc., the country's third-largest cable operator, has been hit with a proposed class action accusing it of failing to pay proper wages and overtime in violation of the laws of the 29 states where the company operates.

  • August 29, 2008

    DOL Seeks Comment On Workplace Toxin Rule

    The U.S. Department of Labor has formally proposed a new rule that would change the way it assesses the risk of toxic chemical exposure in the workplace, a month after it was criticized for trying to pass the rule in secret.

  • September 15, 2008

    Employment Practice: Baker Botts

    Baker Botts LLP's labor and employment lawyers are keeping their fingers on the pulse of potential changes employers might need to be aware of, with an eye toward congressional and presidential elections that could lead to an onslaught of new legislation and could reshape key issues.

  • August 28, 2008

    Delivery Worker Launches FLSA Suit Against DHL

    Package delivery giant DHL Express (USA) Inc. has been hit with a purported class action by a delivery worker alleging that his employer — a DHL contractor — failed to pay him overtime wages even though he worked more than 40 hours per week.

  • August 28, 2008

    Judge Issues Mixed Ruling In Conexant ERISA Suit

    A federal judge on Wednesday upheld key allegations in a putative class action after an employee of semiconductor-maker Conexant Systems Inc. accused it of mismanaging its 401(k) plan by overloading it with company stock, potentially costing employee-investors millions.

  • August 28, 2008

    Union Didn't Waive Dues Checkoff: 9th Circ.

    For the second time, an appeals court has struck down a ruling by the National Labor Relations Board that permitted two Nevada hotels to end union dues checkoff after the hotels' collective bargaining agreement with the union had expired.

  • August 29, 2008

    Court Pares Down McDonald's Employment Suit

    Just days after denying class certification, a federal judge has granted partial summary judgment to McDonald's Corp. in a suit that claims the chain fails to provide its workers with meal and rest breaks, keeps inaccurate records and deprives employees of overtime pay.

  • August 29, 2008

    Most Claims Stand Against Maxim In Backdating Suit

    Taking a stern view of stock option backdating, a federal court Wednesday backed the majority of shareholders' allegations that the top brass of Maxim Integrated Products Inc. fraudulently backdated stock options worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

  • August 27, 2008

    Decree Clears St. Louis Of Discrimination: 8th Circ.

    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit has sided with the city of St. Louis and reversed a lower court's award of damages to two white firefighters who said they were victims of reverse racial discrimination when they were turned down for jobs with the city.

  • August 27, 2008

    Howrey Told To Produce Notes In Backdating Probe

    Howrey LLP has been ordered by a federal court to hand over attorneys' notes to former McAfee Inc. General Counsel Kent Roberts to be used in his defense of civil charges stemming from the company's stock options backdating scandal.

  • August 28, 2008

    SEC Holds On To Most Claims In Backdating Suit

    A federal judge has allowed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to move forward with most of its claims in the agency's first amended complaint alleging a former executive of both KLA-Tencor Corp. and Juniper Networks Inc. played a key role in illegally backdating stock options.