Chinese Daily News Loses Again

In January 2007, after 16 days of trial, a jury returned a unanimous verdict awarding $2.5 million to a group of employees of the Chinese Daily News, Inc. for violations of state and federal labor laws concerning overtime, meal and rest breaks. We first discussed the case in a post that can be found here: http://wagelaw.typepad.com/wage_law/2007/01/employees_preva.html. On February 28, 2008, Federal District Court Judge Consuelo B. Marshall issued a post-trial ruling and entered a judgment awarding the employees $3,514,998.00 in damages and penalties plus $1,676,019.74 in interest. The newspaper published announced last week that it intends to appeal.