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From Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) to Wall Street, disgruntled US workers are driving a new wave of mass employment lawsuits that challenge the most basic premise of the American work ethic: that overwork is good for the soul, the company and, ultimately, the country.

Increasingly, US workers are banding together to demand payment for all the hours they work, including unpaid overtime, work done during meals and time spent walking around on the job. Collective lawsuits involving wages and hours are growing "exponentially", according to a recent study by the law firm Seyfarth Shaw, which found that mass litigation over pay and working hours outnumbered any other kind of workplace class action last year, including gender and other job discrimination lawsuits.

Late last year, a California jury awarded $172m (€136m, £93m) to 116,000 Wal-Mart employees for violation of a state law requiring 30-minute unpaid lunch breaks for employees working at least a six-hour shift – the first of some 70 Wal-Mart wage and hour suits to go to trial.

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[ 11 June 2006: Message edited by: Fidel ]

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Originally posted by otter:
Unfortunately, the majority of Canadians are little more than wannabe americans and would sell their souls for a chance to get on a game show or have the latest widget on the market.

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I disagree, but your dismissive attitude to your fellow Canadians is instructive, and exactly why the left (of which I am a proud member) makes little headway in electoral politics.