A Philadelphia judge has awarded an additional $62 million in statutory liquidated damages to 124,506 current and former Pennsylvania employees of retail titan Wal-Mart who a Philadelphia jury found were not properly compensated for off-the-clock work and missed rest breaks. The common pleas court judge awarded the liquidated damages to those eligible plaintiffs who worked after Jan. 1, 2002; the jury had previously awarded the entire class of 186,000 plaintiffs $78.5 million in compensatory damages.
October 04, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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A Philadelphia judge has awarded an additional $62 million in statutory liquidated damages to 124,506 current and former Pennsylvania employees of retail titan Wal-Mart who a Philadelphia jury found were not properly compensated for off-the-clock work and missed rest breaks.
Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Mark I. Bernstein, who presided over the 2006 trial in Hummel v. Wal-Mart and Braun v. Wal-Mart, Wednesday awarded $62,253,000 to the plaintiffs who worked after Jan. 1, 2002.
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