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Class Action Legal News articles include legal news and lawsuit information about lawsuits filed, settlements reached and verdicts rendered in class action cases dealing with personal injury, defective products, bad drugs and other consumer law related news issues. Many of these articles include interviews from top legal professionals with guidance on legal recourse options from losses resulting from bad drugs, medical malpractice, investment fraud, personal injury, defective products and negligent employers.

  • California Software Developers Overtime: We Feel Your Pain
    California Software Developers Overtime: We Feel Your Pain
    May 30, 2008

    San Francisco, CA: Okay, so you're a California software developer. You love what you do, and you make a decent living at it. You reside in one of the most glorious places on earth—but you don't necessarily love your life. That's because you also love your wife and your kids, and your hobbies, but you have no time for them because you're spending 80 hours a week staring bug-eyed into a computer monitor. Worse, you're denied overtime that you think is your right under the California overtime statutes.

  • California Software Developers: A Reality Check on Overtime, Overdue
    California Software Developers: A Reality Check on Overtime, Overdue
    May 23, 2008

    San Francisco, CA It would be an interesting exercise to focus a webcam on a roomful of computer workers—and a clock—to gauge just how many hours you, and your colleagues are working, and to guess as to whether or not you're being paid the overtime you may be owed for working those long hours.

  • California Software Developers: High Tech Equals Low Pay?
    California Software Developers: High Tech Equals Low Pay?
    May 21, 2008

    Los Angeles, CA To anyone outside the computer industry, determining who should and should not be paid for overtime work may seem like an easy task. However, those in the computer industry, specifically those who work in California, report that companies constantly err when they classify employees as exempt from overtime.

  • California Computer Professionals vs. Sun Microsystems
    California Computer Professionals vs. Sun Microsystems
    May 16, 2008

    Santa Clara, CA In yet another test of California's Computer Professionals legislation, technical writers for Sun Microsystems have filed a lawsuit against the company, alleging they were wrongly classified as computer professionals and therefore denied overtime pay. It is just the latest in a string of lawsuits in California regarding computer professional overtime exemption.

  • California Computer Professionals Take On IBM - Again
    California Computer Professionals Take On IBM - Again
    May 6, 2008

    Woodland Hills, CA A second class action suit has been filed against information technology giant IBM for refusing to compensate California computer professionals for overtime. The suit is headed by Loren Teegs* (not his real name), a Systems Operations IT Specialist who claims that his employer reclassified certain categories of support workers across the country, coding them as exempt, which has resulted in thousands being denied their due overtime.

  • Self-Employed Programmer Forced to Make Concessions
    Self-Employed Programmer Forced to Make Concessions
    April 16, 2008

    Pleasanton, CA: Lindsey is a self-employed programmer who found his fee suddenly in jeopardy although he had completed more than half the job. The small company that employed him underestimated the hours needed and refused payment for what they perceived as over their budget and over time.

  • Navigating California Overtime Laws for Computer Professionals
    Navigating California Overtime Laws for Computer Professionals
    April 6, 2008

    Los Angeles, CA: "I can work up to 150 hours a week and still not qualify for overtime pay," says John, a programmer. For the computer professional, California's overtime laws are unique in the country. Complex shifts in regulations reflect a field that continues to define itself and its parameters. That leaves many employees unsure of where they stand.

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