Legal Intelligencer, "IBM Suit Shows Tech Industry Is in Wage Lawyers' Sights; National Wage-and-hour lawyers seem to be turning up the heat on the computer industry"

          A lawsuit filed Tuesday against computer giant IBM Corp. for allegedly not paying overtime to tens of thousands of rank-and-file employees arrives on the heels of a series of suits making similar claims.
          Filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the suit has three current and former workers as named plaintiffs and seeks class action status on behalf of IBM computer installers and maintenance workers across the country.
          "I think there will be an increasing recognition in those industries that workers are not exempt from overtime pay," said one of the plaintiffs lawyers in the case. "Companies have been taking advantage that workers have not been able to band together and fight those pay practices."
          The suit seeks compensation for the past four years for affected current and former IBM workers in California and three years of back pay for those in other states. The IBM employees usually worked at an IBM client's workplace, attorneys said.