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Update - August 26, 2010:
On July 29, 2010, Judge Highberger issued a minute order regarding various issues set forth in motions filed with the court, including plaintiff’s request for class certification, along with motions to compel further discovery - get more information from defendants about the facts.Â
More recently, on August 25, 2010, counsel appeared in court to discuss what further action is to be taken in this case. At that time, the court set a further status conference, now scheduled to take place in November.
In a nutshell, the initial motion for class certification was denied without prejudice, and the motion to compel discovery as against yellowpages.com was granted. While such discovery was, for that motion, denied as to other named defendants, we believe that it will be expanded to include other defendants, and will be working to that end as time progresses.
As a result of that order, we will continue to prosecute this case. The original complaint was framed to include those job titles which were classified as exempt (i.e., not requiring payment of overtime by the employer) on the business side (i.e., not the Information Technologies - IT side) of various AT&T entities, including yellowpages.com, AT&T Services, Inc., etc. A copy of the complaint is attached to this website for your review. (Our firm joined the case in January of this year; thus our firm name does not appear on the face page.)
Since the filing of the complaint, discovery and investigation have taken place. Among other information, plaintiffs’ counsel is now in possession of the names of product managers, project managers, marketing managers and designers, but only those employed by AT&T since February 8, 2004 (i.e., 4 years before the date of the filing of the complaint, the period which is the subject of the case, continuing through the current day, and until this case is settled and an end date is determined, or it is concluded by the court).
Plaintiffs’ counsel contends that the class should also include those persons holding various job titles, which were included in the first motion for class certification, and which included (but was not limited to) Designers, Graphic Artists, Production Artists, Senior Editorial Managers, Editorial Managers, Product Managers, Project Managers and Marketing Managers.
As you may be aware, our firm has also filed suit on behalf of Project Managers - on the IT side of the business, in a case entitled Pierce v. AT&T. More information can be learned of that case on a separate page on this website. For this case, however, we are seeking to recoup unpaid wages, etc., on behalf of Project Managers, Products Managers, Marketing Managers, and so on, who were claimed to be exempt by AT&T, and who worked on the business side.
If you were employed by SBC Services, Inc., AT&T Services, Inc., yellowpages.com, or Southwestern Bell since February 8, 2004, as a manager in marketing, production or operations, etc., whether or not you had one of those exact titles listed above, or in an exempt position in those areas, and you believe you were performing the same duties as one of those positions set forth above, we would appreciate your contacting our office. We are hopeful that our efforts will assist those employees who might fall within the class, but need assistance in doing so. Â
We intend to take depositions before the next hearing date, and hopefully will be able to assist even more people because of our efforts during that time, and any help which might be provided us by members of the class.
Thank you for any help you can provide.
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If you were employed during the past six years in the State of California by AT&T in the "business" side of AT&T, i.e., "operations, front end, marketing, business development, customer service, front end design team, front end marketing, graphics, info space, infrastructure, products, product development, product marketing, Netopia, infrastructure, sales, QA, Site Manager, sub-infrastructure, vendor-access, web operations, website, brand marketing and business developing", you should know that a class action was filed entitled Austin Gray v. AT&T, case No. BC 384 948 in the Los Angeles County Superior Court concerning various issues regarding wages as set forth therein.
IF YOU BELIEVE YOU ARE A MEMBER OF THE CLASS please contact us. We want to make sure we have your information to the extent you wish to participate in this case.
In particular, you may wish to contact our offices if you were required to work more than 8 hours in a day or 40 hours in a week, and/or if it was necessary for you to work through meal breaks, or forego meal and/or rest breaks altogether. You may be entitled to past due overtime even if you were (mis)classified as exempt.
Our office has also filed cases on behalf of other employees of AT&T, entitled Shoff v. AT&T, Doyle v. AT&T, Waters, Turner and Fajardo v. AT&T and Lindsly v. AT&T, all relating to various other job titles of employees of AT&T. We refer you to those cases and other sections of this website for further information.
We are hopeful that we will be able to assist employees of AT&T who were or are employed in this business/operations arena, just as we have been able to do for many other positions.
Should you have any information you wish to share, or if you have any questions regarding this case, please feel free to call us at 626.795.0205.
Thanks very much. We look forward to hearing from you.
The Law Offices of Thomas W. FalveyÂ
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