'Tis the season for overtime litigation, as new lawsuits pile up and two federal judges gave early holiday gifts to class action plaintiffs, the National Law Journal's Tresa Baldas reported.
Those gifts include one from a federal judge in Minnesota who last week denied a request by Qwest Communications International Inc. to decertify a class of more than 1,500 call center employees who allege that they have not been paid for time spent booting up and shutting down their computers.
The day before, a federal judge in Arkansas granted class certification to a group of former Butterball employees who allege that the poultry company didn't pay them for time spent donning and doffing protective equipment and clothing.
Also last week, security guards at Madison Square Garden filed a proposed class action in New York federal court, claiming that they have routinely and deliberately been shorted on overtime payments.
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