overtime pay

A lack of staff in the face of overwhelming volume is the excuse banks give for turning to robo-signers to speed foreclosures, and for their inability to manage the the mortgage modification process. Now, a class action against BofA raises questions about its core business as well.

Wal-Mart agreed to pay $40 million to settle a lawsuit filed in Massachusetts that alleged the big-box retailer cheated 87,500 current and former employees in the state out of pay and failed to obey work rules. The class-action suit, filed in 2001, accused Wal-Mart of altering time cards, refusing to pay overtime, and denying workers rest and meal breaks.

One of the best-paid public employees in all of the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area wasn't a mayor or a chief operating officer; he didn't have an advanced degree or irreplaceable skills. He didn't even have a fancy title, like "sergeant" or "lieutenant." He just worked a lot. In an article...