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Labor/Employment

Dec. 7, 2009

Starbucks Class Action May Proceed

A federal judge has ruled that a $5 million putative class action lawsuit alleging Starbucks Corp. failed to pay overtime and minimum wages to its employees can proceed to trial.

By Ciaran McEvoy

Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES A $5 million putative class action lawsuit alleging Starbucks Corp. failed to pay overtime and minimum wages to its employees can proceed to trial, a federal judge has ruled.

In an 18-page ruling issued Thursday, U.S. District Judge Gary Allen Feess denied Starbucks' motions for summary judgment concerning whether it paid overtime and termination wage claims to ex-S...

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