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about lawsuits by national employee rights law firm seeking to
halt discrimination in the workplace (based on age, race, or gender),
overtime pay and wage and hour violations, and breaches of fiduciary
duties by pension fund and 401k plan managers. |
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Lieff Cabraser's Employment
Discrimination, Overtime
Pay and ERISA Litigation Practice Area
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| Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, is a class
action law firm that represents employees in lawsuits filed
across America, including for race or racial discrimination.
Our attorneys have been at the forefront of upholding the
rights of employees nationwide. Lieff Cabraser Employment
Group attorneys have represented thousands of current and
former employees seeking to vindicate their statutory and
common law rights. |
| Federal and state
anti-employment discrimination laws prohibit discrimination in the work place
based on an employee's race, color, religion, age, gender, or disability. Lieff
Cabraser has helped employees nationwide challenge discrimination in the workplace
and initiated lawsuits to compensate the victims of discrimination. |
| Notable
successes by Lieff Cabraser on behalf of employees in employment
discrimination class action lawsuits include the representation of a class
of approximately 25,000 female employees of, and applicants for employment with,
Home Depot. In 1998, the Court approved a settlement of the case in which Home
Depot agreed to modify its hiring, promotion and compensation practices, and
paid $87.5 million, one of the highest amounts ever paid in a gender discrimination
case. |
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with leading civil rights organizations, we successfully prosecuted
a class action lawsuit in federal court alleging that the hiring
and employment practices of Abercrombie & Fitch Co., one of the nation’s
largest clothing retailers, discriminate against Latino, Asian-American and
African-American applicants and employees. |
| Lieff Cabraser is currently prosecuting several employment
discrimination cases against major corporations, including Citigroup's Smith Barney Division (gender), CostCo (gender), Best
Buy (race and gender), Cintas (gender), McCormick & Schmick (race), and
Morgan Stanley DW (race). |
| Lieff Cabraser also represents employees in overtime pay lawsuits. |
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employers misclassify their employees as "exempt," "managers,"
"executives" or "independent contractors" as a way to
prevent those employees from receiving benefits and overtime. Examples include
people who work in chain restaurants as managers yet are also required to wait
tables and work at the cash register, and IT tech workers who install and maintain
computer software and equipment. |
| Lieff Cabraser has obtained lost wages and benefits for employees
in overtime pay lawsuits, including the successful representation of employees
of IBM, Computer Sciences Corp., Wells Fargo, A&P/Food Emporium, Denny's, Carrow's,
the advertising firm TMP Worldwide, the California State Automobile Association,
and Longs Drug Stores. |
| Wage and hour suits also arise when
employers do not pay employees for all hours worked, even though the work performed
is required by the employer and benefits the company. These cases can involve
claims the employer forces employees to work "off
the clock." |
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contact an employment lawyer at Lieff Cabraser, click
here. |
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example, Lieff Cabraser represented assembly line workers in the Perdue
Farms chicken plants who had to don, put on and take off and sanitize certain
protective equipment. The company for
many years did not compensate the employees for this work on the job. In
2002, the Court granted final approval to a $10 million settlement of the case. |
| Lieff Cabraser has also represented employees who are
misclassified as "exempt" from overtime, when they should have been "non-exempt"
and received overtime. For example, Lieff Cabraser represented IBM workers
who install, maintain or support computer software or equipment and who
were denied overtime because they had been classified as exempt. The court
granted preliminary approval to a settlement of this case worth approximately
$65 million in January 2007. |
| Lieff
Cabraser litigates claims on behalf of employees
and/or retirees alleging interference with their interests under the federal
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). Among its provisions, ERISA
recognizes that pension and 401k plan trustees owe fiduciary duties to the participants
and beneficiaries in these plans. |
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represented former Pacific Telesis Group and SBC Communications, Inc. employees
who became participants in 401k plans administered by SBC Communications,
Inc. The plaintiffs alleged that SBC liquidated plaintiffs' AirTouch stock
from the 401k plans without providing them with adequate notice of their
rights to retain the AirTouch stock. In 2002, the court granted final
approval to a $10 million settlement of the case. Lieff Cabraser is currently
representing employees or retirees with ERISA claims in several cases,
including against Caterpillar, Prudential Insurance, and RJR Reynolds Tobacco
Co. |
| For a list of our current overtime pay, employment discrimination,
unfair employment practice and ERISA cases, click here. |
| To contact an employment attorney at Lieff Cabraser, click
here. |
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LIEFF
CABRASER HEIMANN & BERNSTEIN, LLP
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Cabraser attorneys provide legal advice and practice law for clients in
federal district courts throughout the United States and in state courts
where we are licensed to practice. In states in which our lawyers are not
licensed to practice, we have affiliations with local attorneys who serve
as co-counsel with our firm. Please read our disclaimer. |
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