Tapsearch Com EditorWorkers suing their employers
June 29th 2011 14:34
Reference: Allison Grant, Cleveland Plain Dealer - by Ray Tapajna Tapsearch Com Chronicles
Women workers lose their class action suit against Walmart unfair labor practices
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the favor of Walmart against women workers who claimed Walmart was guilty of unfair labor practices against women workers. Of course there is much more to this story about Walmart's use of all workers with many workers there needing public and private support for economic survival. However, this leads into another story how more American workers are suing their employers. The Supreme Court ruled against the women workers based on the women not representing a definitive class. This opens to the door to more individual law suits that certainly will follow.
They will be part of a flood of wage and hour cases that are reaching record levels since 2010. Back in the 1990s, we wrote about workers at major technology corporations getting fired before turning fourty so the companies could avoid the age discrimination laws.
Now, Allison Grant, Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter, tells how bank loan officers, exotic dancers, delivery truck drivers, exterminators, janitors and drugstore assistant manager are among tens of thousands of U.S. workers who filed class-action lawsuits against their employers last year. I wonder how the U.S. Supreme Court will handle all these cases. If they rule out certain classification of workers, it will just multiply the number of cases in the process.
Nearly 6,800 private sector lawsuits were filed nationwide. In Norther Ohio, then number of cases was up 37 percent. The Department of Labor had to deal with about 32,000 wage and hour complaints in 2010, representing an increase of 33 percent in just two years.
Allison Grant gives an example of a women whose tasks as a patient-care coordinator requiring more time than she could squeeze into a 40 hour work week, So she came in on Saturdays or worked evenings and periodically filed for overtime. The health clinic responded by putting her on salary, with no overtime pay although her job demands were ever bigger, she said.
Workers in countless establishments are faced witht the same problem. They can not get the work done in any reasonable hourly fashion. This is the state of our economy in the USA and very few political leaders want to handle this hot issue.
Free trade has thrashed human dignity in the work place. It has made workers commodities that are subject to rejection if they do not play the game. In the global economic arena in a gladiator competive mode, there is always someone who will work for less and do more than the other person.
Why is something so obvious left out of the picture as money changers rule the game.
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Women workers lose their class action suit against Walmart unfair labor practices
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the favor of Walmart against women workers who claimed Walmart was guilty of unfair labor practices against women workers. Of course there is much more to this story about Walmart's use of all workers with many workers there needing public and private support for economic survival. However, this leads into another story how more American workers are suing their employers. The Supreme Court ruled against the women workers based on the women not representing a definitive class. This opens to the door to more individual law suits that certainly will follow.
They will be part of a flood of wage and hour cases that are reaching record levels since 2010. Back in the 1990s, we wrote about workers at major technology corporations getting fired before turning fourty so the companies could avoid the age discrimination laws.
Now, Allison Grant, Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter, tells how bank loan officers, exotic dancers, delivery truck drivers, exterminators, janitors and drugstore assistant manager are among tens of thousands of U.S. workers who filed class-action lawsuits against their employers last year. I wonder how the U.S. Supreme Court will handle all these cases. If they rule out certain classification of workers, it will just multiply the number of cases in the process.
Nearly 6,800 private sector lawsuits were filed nationwide. In Norther Ohio, then number of cases was up 37 percent. The Department of Labor had to deal with about 32,000 wage and hour complaints in 2010, representing an increase of 33 percent in just two years.
Allison Grant gives an example of a women whose tasks as a patient-care coordinator requiring more time than she could squeeze into a 40 hour work week, So she came in on Saturdays or worked evenings and periodically filed for overtime. The health clinic responded by putting her on salary, with no overtime pay although her job demands were ever bigger, she said.
Workers in countless establishments are faced witht the same problem. They can not get the work done in any reasonable hourly fashion. This is the state of our economy in the USA and very few political leaders want to handle this hot issue.
Free trade has thrashed human dignity in the work place. It has made workers commodities that are subject to rejection if they do not play the game. In the global economic arena in a gladiator competive mode, there is always someone who will work for less and do more than the other person.
Why is something so obvious left out of the picture as money changers rule the game.
More Tapart News articles and resources.Your text goes here
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