AT&T Workers Sue for $1 Billion in Overtime Pay
December 17th, 2009Mark Klein’s, Wiring Up The Big Brother Machine…And Fighting It, not only lays out the most detailed account (in the public domain) of how the NSA conducts mass communications intercepts, it also covers the grim corporate culture at AT&T. If you want to constantly think that you’re about to get laid off, AT&T is the place to work.
Via: Reuters:
AT&T Inc workers are suing the telephone operator for an estimated $1 billion in overtime payments in two class action lawsuits that say it is wrongly depriving about 5,000 employees of overtime pay.
The lawsuits say that a company-wide policy exempting first-level managers from overtime pay was a violation of federal labor laws and California state laws, according to Sanford Wittels & Heisler, the law firm filing the case.
AT&T, which employs about 290,000 people and is expected to generate $123 billion in revenue this year, declined to comment on the cases directly but said that it complies with all federal and state wage laws.
