Posted On:
July 3, 2008
Company Penalized For Failing to Provide Rest Breaks to Employees
A recent article in The American Lawyer reported that a major U.S. corporation has lost its third straight wage-and-hour class action lawsuit. After a three month bench trial, Judge Robert King, Jr. decided that in failing to provide rest breaks to employees, the company broke state laws over two million times. Judge King awarded $6.5 million to the plaintiffs, which made up 56,000 employees in the state of Minnesota. According to the lead lawyer of the class, Franklin Azar, the corporation faces at least five more such wage-and-hour suits.
