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Massachusetts Wal-Mart Case Settles!

By Andy Hoffman

We forgot to tell you that last week, some 87,500 current and former Wal-Mart employees in Massachusetts settled their class-action lawsuit against the retail behemoth. 

The case, which we?ve written about before, was originally filed in 2001 and involved all sorts of ridiculous workplace abuses (e.g., denying breaks, clocking out workers one minute after they clocked in for work).  It?s also gone through numerous legal twists and turns over the last eight years.

Said attorney Robert Bonsignore, ?It?s a great day for the Wal-Mart employees of Massachusetts ? The case has been in suit since 2001: We?ve been to the Supreme (Judicial) Court twice and the Appeals Court four times, and it was a hard-fought battle. In the end, Wal-Mart stepped up and did the right thing for their workers.?

The settlement will reimburse effected employees who worked between August 1995 and the date of the settlement.  The suit was part of a series of similar, multi-state complaints filed against Wal-Mart in 2001.

Full post as published by ThePopTort on December 07, 2009 (boomark / email).