A large telecommunications company, Charter Communications, recently settled a lawsuit brought against the company by 8,000 workers who claimed that they were not paid their just wages. Kelsey Volkmann of the St. Louis Business Journal had these details:

Workers claimed that Charter failed to compensate field technicians for a variety of tasks, including loading and unloading the company vehicle, travel time and uncompensated pre-work activities such as gathering and stocking.

As hard working citizens, those workers from Charter took action to ensure that they would receive compensation for the services they provided to the company. Companies have the responsibility to honor their contracts with their employees, and to pay them for legitimate work. Exploitation of employees is not only an injustice to those it directly affects, but also to our society, as it breaches the trust and expectations we place in corporations. Whether the transgressions stem from failure to pay overtime wages after an employee works more than 40 hours a week or the improper placement of non-managerial workers in salaried management positions, these violations of the law should not be tolerated. At Perenich The Law Firm, we serve as Tampa Bay employment claims attorneys who fight for the rights of those that are taken advantage of by companies that show little regard for their employees.

Walmart settled a California class-action lawsuit on Wednesday, May 12, that alleged that the giant corporation failed to pay various wage claims that were due to workers who had left the company. Karen Gullo of Bloomberg.com has this report:

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The former workers claimed that, after they left the company, Wal-Mart didn’t pay them their holiday or overtime wages or failed to pay the earnings within the time specified by state law, according to a 2006 complaint filed in federal court in Oakland, California.

The total settlement reached for the 232,000 employees involved in the claim was as much as 86 million dollars. At Perenich The Law Firm, we understand that in our society and in our Tampa Bay area, employers, especially large corporations, are not allowed to exploit their workers. This applies to failure to pay time-and-a-half for overtime once an hourly worker has already worked 40 hours in one week, as well as violations such as putting non-managerial workers into a salary pay structure. These injustices should not be tolerated under any circumstances, and we will serve you in making sure you receive fair and just compensation for the work and services you have performed.