Law360, Los Angeles (December 11, 2012, 9:35 PM ET) — A $25 million collective action was filed Tuesday against Memphis-based clothing retailer City Gear LLC for allegedly classifying its managers as salary-based to avoid overtime payments but continuing to dock pay when the employees failed to work 40 hours per week. Although those with a […]

A Nashville woman is accusing a Memphis-based clothing retailer of systematically denying overtime pay to its managers and assistant managers, according to a proposed class action lawsuit filed Tuesday in a Nashville court. The company considers those workers exempt from overtime consideration, the lawsuit maintains, because of their supervisory role, an acceptable practice under the […]

A federal lawsuit against Memphis-based retailer City Gear accuses the company with violating the Fair Labor Standards Act by misclassifying employees to avoid paying overtime. Attorneys for the Sanford Heisler firm, which has offices in New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., filed the suit in U.S. District Court in Nashville on Tuesday. The complaint […]

by Cole Epley A class action complaint filed against Memphis-based clothing retailer City Gear LLC seeks more than $25 million in damages in response to allegations of unpaid overtime compensation and purported violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, but company officials report they’ve yet to be officially served with process papers. Filed in U.S. […]

by Robin Madell If you’re eying that next level up the ladder, you might be wondering the best approach to get there. But in addition to doing the right things to ascend in your career, it’s important to be aware of what might keep you from that next promotion. To that end, career-intelligence polled a […]

By Gavin Broady Law360, New York (November 05, 2012, 3:36 PM ET) — Six women on Friday joined a $100 million New York gender discrimination class action against Forest Laboratories Inc., bringing to 10 the total number of sales representatives who say they were denied fair compensation and promotions by the drugmaker. The six new […]

As it appeared in Workforce Plaintiff law firm Sanford Heisler L.L.P. expanded a putative class action gender discrimination lawsuit filed against Forest Pharmaceuticals Inc. in federal district court in New York on Monday. The New York-based law firm named four plaintiffs in its original complaint, filed in July. The four original plaintiffs were all Pennsylvania […]

By Associated Press, AP NEW YORK — A New Jersey woman who worked for the NBA as a senior account executive filed a $3 million gender discrimination lawsuit against the league Tuesday, saying it forced her and two other women with young children out of their jobs. Lawyers for Brynn Cohn of Hoboken filed the […]

As it appeared on the National Law Journal After 18 years of legal wrangling, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has green-lighted a race discrimination class action against the U.S. Marshals Service. The EEOC commissioners reversed a decision by an agency administrative law judge denying class certification and dismissing the complaint, ruling that the evidence […]

By Sindhu Sundar Law360, New York (July 19, 2012, 10:23 PM ET) — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission last week revived class claims by a former U.S. Marshals Service criminal investigator accusing the law enforcement agency of systematically discriminating against blacks and certified a sweeping class of black marshals over the past 18 years. […]

by Steve Barrett It seems a different PR agency comes under the microscope every week at the moment and after Ogilvy, Weber Shandwick, Hill+Knowlton, and Porter Novelli’s recent spells in the spotlight, MSL takes its turn this time. A $100 million class action suit, originally filed in February 2011 by former MSL healthcare director Monique […]

by Jim Edwards Neil Dhillon, managing director of MSLGroup in Washington D.C., just called an all-hands meeting at his offices to reassure staffers at the PR agency that the proposed class-action sex discrimination lawsuit filed against the company is false. About 30 to 35 people attended the impromptu, all-staff confab. A source tells us Dhillon […]

by Brittaney Kiefer NEW YORK: Court documents filed in the class action lawsuit against MSLGroup and parent Publicis Groupe describe senior male executives at the firm behaving in a derogatory manner towards female employees. The documents, filed in US District Court in the Southern District of New York, accuse MSL Americas president Jim Tsokanos and […]

by Jim Edwards Female employees of Publicis Groupe’s MSLGroup PR agency have secured a potentially crucial victory in their litigation over alleged unequal pay at the shop: A federal judge in New York granted conditional certification to their claim for a class action suit against the company. The suit was brought by Monique da Silva […]

As it appeared in FiercePharma by Eric Palmer Megan Barrett says when she returned from each of two maternity leaves, her job ranking at Forest Laboratories ($FRX) was downgraded. When Jennifer Seard tried to figure out a way to both continue to work and get time to take care of her epileptic son, she says […]