Wal-Mart settles case alleging violations of child labor laws
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WASHINGTON -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , the world's largest retailer, will pay $135,540 to settle federal charges that it broke child labor laws, the Labor Department said yesterday.
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CHICAGO  Â The maker of Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway toys has agreed to pay $30 million to settle a nationwide class-action lawsuit by thousands of families who bought lead-tainted products, a plaintiffsâ lawyer said Wednesday.
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Wal-Mart has been sued in federal court by a man who claims the world's largest retailer discriminates against blacks in 12 Southern states from seeking truck-driving jobs.
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Attorneys representing immigrant children detained in Texas with their families have reached a settlement that avoids a trial on their lawsuit against the federal government, officials said Monday.
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The US Department of Labor announced Wednesday that it had reached a $1.9 million settlement with a contractor for Target Corp. after finding that the contractor had not paid overtime
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  said on Wednesday the New York Stock Exchange advised it that it is not violating exchange rules, after a union pension fund asked NYSE regulators to probe whether pay consultants for the retailer are too cozy with its managers.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , the nation's largest private employer, lost a bid to prevent 2 million current and female former workers from proceeding as a group with sex bias claims in the largest employment lawsuit in U S history.
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The Walt Disney Co. agreed Monday to settle allegations from federal regulators that it failed to disclose benefits received by some directors and their relatives, including three children employed by the company.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. female workers who are seeking billions of dollars for what they allege are discriminatory pay and promotion practices should be able to sue the company as a group, a lawyer told a US court.
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The world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart  Stores Inc. WMT.N, will pay $135,540 to settle charges it  violated child labor laws in three states, The New York Times  reported on Saturday.
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Wal-Mart is a magnet for employee complaints about off-the-clock work, and faces lawsuits in more than 30 states.
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Retailer agrees to pay compensation to customers in move to end long-running price-fixing saga
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NEW YORK - IBM Corp. said Friday that it has settled part of an employee lawsuit claiming that the world&#39;s biggest seller of computers and related services violated age-discrimination rules when it changed pension plans.
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A federal judge gave undocumented Wal-Mart Stores contract workers the right to seek out colleagues and form a group to collectively sue the company for unpaid overtime and minimum wage violations.
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Maryland and two other states announced Wednesday a settlement of their lawsuits against Brown &amp; Williamson Tobacco Co. over its &quot;Kool Mixx&quot; campaign, which officials claimed targeted African-American youth.
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Payout settles class-action lawsuit alleging company unlawfully withheld overtime pay from some employees.
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A Middlesex Superior Court judge in Cambridge has certified a class-action lawsuit filed against Wal-Mart Corp. by workers at its North Attleborough store. The order by Judge Ernest B. Murphy allows more than 55,000 workers nationwide to seek redress as a group, according to San Francisco lawyer Carolyn Beasley Burton, who represents the plaintiffs. The lawsuit alleges that Wal-Mart managers ...