July 17, 2014
Sears Holdings Management Corp. agreed Wednesday to pay $5 million to end a proposed class action accusing the retail giant of misclassifying about 700 employees at Sears and Kmart retail stores as overtime exempt in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
April 27, 2012
In a scathing rebuke of lawyers for the Sears and Kmart retail chains, an Illinois federal judge on Thursday struck the companies' response to a proposed wage-and-hour class action by employees, describing some answers in the legal filing as "oxymoronic" and "arrant nonsense."