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: ClassLawBlog.comMass High Court Allows Employee Class Action Against Wal-Mart to Proceed
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The Boston Globe reports that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has reinstated a class action lawsuit brought against Wal-Mart on behalf of more than 67,500 Massachusetts workers.
The lawsuit alleges that the workers were denied meal breaks and forced to work off the clock. The suit also claims that managers illegally changed employees? time cards to reduce reported payroll expenses ? for example by clocking workers out one minute after they clocked in. The high court ruling vacated a 2006 decision by the Middlesex Superior Court which had excluded plaintiffs? expert, decertified the class, and granted summary judgment to Wal-Mart. The case will now proceed in the Middlesex Superior Court.
Full post as published by ClassLawBlog.com on September 29, 2008 (boomark / email).
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