Electronic Arts has agreed to pay $15.6 million to settle a class action lawsuit brought by computer graphic artists seeking overtime compensation, the company announced on Oct. 5, 2005. The class includes computer graphic artists, including “animators,” “modelers,” “Texture artists,” “lighters,” “background effects artists,” “special effects artists” and “environmental artists,” who worked at EA’s California […]

Farmers Insurance will pay $52.5 million in overtime wages to its claims representatives in seven states, a federal judge in Oregon ruled Monday.
The judgement was entered on behalf of the FLSA collective action members, and the illinois, New Mexico, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, and Michigan classes in the amount of $48,565320.54.
The recent court victories for claims […]

New overtime rules go into effect today that will impact millions of workers across a broad range of job categories including assistant managers at retail stores, fast food restaurants, financial service industry workers, registered nurses and law enforcement personal.
The Bush Administration says as many as 107,000 could lose their overtime eligibility under the new rules, […]

The number of U.S. workers suing companies including Wal-Mart Stores Inc. for failing to pay required overtime has tripped since 1997, according to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
Bloomberg News reports that U.S. workers filed 102 overtime class-action lawsuits in 2003, compared with only 31 in 1997. “Groups that sued included managers with few […]

A group of lawyers filed a class-action lawsuit against Wal-Mart in New Jersey, claiming the retail giant violated the RICO Act, the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization Act, by conspiring with cleaning contractors to not pay immigrant janitors overtime.
The lawsuit seeks class-action status for thousands of immigrant workers, hired by the contractors to clean the […]