Wal-Mart has agreed, in a class-action suit settlement, to pay out as much as $85 million to employees across the country who filed suit against the company for unfair labor practices. U.S. District Court Judge Phillip Pro approved the...

At least 15,000 purchasers of chewing tobacco in Massachusetts could be eligible for a piece of a $10.65 million class action settlement with U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Co., according to a lawyer for plaintiffs who sued the company. The plaintiffs’...

Wal-Mart Stores, the nation's largest retailer, said Tuesday that it would pay up to $640 million to settle some 63 wage-and-hour lawsuits that accused it of forcing employees to work off the clock and go without meal and rest...

After a couple of years on the sidelines, a seven year old, multi-million lawsuit against Wal-Mart by its workers is now back on the clock. On January 8, 2005 Sprawl-Busters reported that a Superior Court Judge in Middlesex County,...

Court United States State Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Writing for the Court Marshall Citation 893 N.E.2d 1187,452 Mass. 337 Parties Crystal SALVAS & another<SMALL><SUP>1</SUP></SMALL> v. WAL-MART STORES, INC. Decision Date 23 September 2008 Docket Number No. SJC-10108.  ...

On January 8, 2005 Sprawl-Busters reported that a Superior Court Judge in Middlesex County, Massachusetts had ruled against Wal-Mart’s motion to dismiss a class action suit regarding the retailer’s employee time records. The suit charges that Wal-Mart failed to...