Cadence Design Systems Overtime Pay
Class Action Lawsuit
Court Grants Final Approval to $7.7 Million Class Action Settlement
for Cadence IT Support Workers
On July 7, 2008, U.S. District Court Judge James Ware of the Northern
District of California granted final approval of a proposed class action
settlement for current and former information technology (IT) support
employees of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. The proposed settlement includes
an award of $7.66 million, plus interest, for 207 class members.
The class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of current and former information
technology (IT) support employees who claimed that Cadence violated federal
and state employment laws by improperly classifying them as exempt from
overtime compensation. Class members are those who (1) have performed
the duties of installing, maintaining, and/or supporting computer software
and/or hardware for Cadence's Information Technology infrastructure,
and (2) who held or hold one or more of the following titles in the pay
grade level of "T4" or lower:
Associate Desktop Systems Specialist
Associate IT Remote Support Specialist
Associate Systems Administrator
Associate Systems Engineer
Customer Support Manager
Desktop Systems Specialist
IT Remote Support Specialist
Network Engineer
Senior AM Systems Engineer
Senior Business Systems Analyst
Senior Database Administrator
Senior Desktop Systems Specialist
Senior IT Remote Support Specialist
Senior Network Engineer
Senior Program Analyst
Senior Staff Program Analyst
Senior Systems Administrator |
Senior Systems Analyst
Senior Systems Engineer
Senior Web Administrator
Senior Web Technologist
Staff Business Systems Analyst
Staff Database Administrator
Staff Desktop Systems Specialist
Staff Information Security Analyst
Staff IT Remote Support Specialist
Staff Network Engineer
Staff Program Analyst
Staff Systems Administrator
Staff Systems Analyst
Staff Systems Engineer
Staff Telecomm Engineer
Systems Administrator
Systems Analyst
Systems Engineer
Web Technologist |
The settlement checks will be mailed later in July 2008 to the 184 class
members who submitted claim forms to the Claims Administrator.
If you have any questions or concerns, please fill
out the form here or
contact Jahan Sagafi at jsagafi@lchb.com or (415) 956-1000 x2205.
For more information about the settlement process, and/or to update your
address, you may contact the Claims Administrator at 1 (866) 854-6044.
If you have questions or would like to confirm that your contact information
is correct, please fill
out the form here or contact Jahan Sagafi at jsagafi@lchb.com or
(415) 956-1000 x2205.
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Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, is a 60-plus attorney law firm with offices in San Francisco, New York and Nashville. Our firm is committed to protecting the rights of employees nationwide to equitable treatment and fair wages. Lieff Cabraser employment attorneys have represented thousands of employees seeking to vindicate their rights in cases involving gender and race discrimination, overtime pay and wage and hour violations, and the mishandling of funds in pension and 401k plans.
Lieff Cabraser has obtained lost wages and benefits for employees in overtime pay lawsuits, including under the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act and state wage and hour laws. In recent years, our firm, along with co-counsel, has represented technical support workers seeking to recover overtime pay in similar class action cases. Such cases have resulted in settlements for the technical support workers, including: $24 million for IT workers at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) in 2005, $12.8 million for BSCs at Wells Fargo in 2007, $65 million for IT workers at IBM in 2007, and $7.7 million for IT workers at Cadence in 2008. Our firm also represents IT support workers in an overtime class action against JP Morgan Chase.
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