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Last Updated September 26, 2008 |
A Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has reinstated a lawsuit against Wal-Mart filed by employees who claim the world’s largest retailer pressured them to work off the clock and denied them rest and meal breaks.
Salvas v. Wal-Mart was initially filed in 2001 in Middlesex Superior Court, accusing Wal-Mart of illegally altering timecards in order to decrease payroll expenses, including clocking employees out just one minute after they had clocked in. The suit also alleged that employees were deprived of their meal and rest breaks. The case was certified as a class action in January of 2004. In 2006, a Superior Court judge decertified the case as a class-action lawsuit representing 67,000 Wal-Mart employees in Massachusetts on the basis that each associate’s situation was unique, and therefore class action certification was improper. But on September 23, 2008, the State Supreme Judicial Court overturned that ruling and held that the lawsuit can go forward as a class action.
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