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http://www.bostonherald.com/business/general/view.bg?articleid=1192668&srvc=business&position=3
Staples to pay out in class action suit
Staples to pay $790,000 in suit
Saturday,
August 22, 2009 Staples Inc. has agreed to fork over $790,000 to end a
class-action lawsuit filed by a former employee who claimed she was
shortchanged on overtime pay.Kirsten McCandless of Milford would get
about $106 per qualifying workweek under a preliminary settlement
agreement with the Framingham-based office products company. The suit,
filed in October 2007, claims Staples violated state and federal wage
laws.The deal, filed this week in U.S. District Court in Boston and
subject to a judge’s approval, would also apply to about 60 other
current and former Staples employees who worked as senior product
solutions specialists between Oct. 1, 2004, and June 30, 2008.The
specialist job involves taking calls from Staples customers and helping
them with purchases. The suit claims the workers should not have been
considered exempt from overtime laws.McCandless would also
receive an $8,000 incentive award for serving as the lead plaintiff.
She left Staples in May 2008.McCandless’ attorneys at Boston’s Gordon
Law Group, who declined comment, would get about $260,000 of the
total.A Staples spokesman confirmed that a settlement has been worked
out but declined further comment.According to court filings, the two
sides said the settlement was reached “after more than sixteen months
of arms-length, good faith negotiations, including two day-long
mediation sessions, substantial written exchanges and thousands of
pages of discovery and extensive telephone conferences.”
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