The Daily Journal, "Staffers Share $24 Million Overtime-Pay Accord"
About 30,000 employees at an El Segundo technology company will share $24 million under an overtime-pay settlement tentatively approved by the courts. The class-action agreement, one of the state's largest payouts in an overtime lawsuit, won preliminary approval Thursday from U.S. District Judge George P. Schiavelli in Los Angeles. The accord will benefit current and former workers at Computer Sciences Corp. When the suit was filed in 2003, employees' lawyers at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein in San Francisco said Computer Sciences illegally exempted workers who were not doing creative work by wrongly applying an overtime exemption designed for workers in creative fields at information technology firms.