Posted On: July 3, 2008 by Schwartz & Perry

Company Penalized For Failing to Provide Rest Breaks

The American Lawyer has reported in a July 2, 2008 article that a major US 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, the company broke state laws over two million times. Judge King awarded $6.5 million to the class which was made up of 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.