IBM Class Action Lawsuit Expanded
The class action lawsuit against International Business Machines Corp. has been expanded to include claims in Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New Jersey.The class action lawsuit is seeking overtime pay, with many current and former employees claiming that the company failed to pay overtime wages.
The company employs over 300,000 workers, and the growing number of plaintiffs filing for overtime pay from the corporation includes systems administrators, network technicians and other technical staff throughout the U.S.
One attorney stated: "This case could result in one of the largest class action lawsuits in history, both in numbers of employees and total damages, ever filed against a corporation for failure to pay overtime wages."
The company has also come under fire for outsourcing work as well as cost and job cutting in addition to failing to make overtime payments to staff.
Topic Added March 24th, 2006
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