* Class action involved 87,500 current and former workers * Workers to get average of $734 LOS ANGELES, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc WMT.N has agreed to pay $40 million to settle a 2001 class action lawsuit by current...

Wage and Hour claims are, today, somewhat of a hot commodity in the legal process. These lawsuits were, to a large degree, trail blazed by an innovative attorney named Robert Bonsignore who sued retail giant Wal-Mart in a class action wage...

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,...