Chinese newspaper to appeal overtime ruling
By Leah McBride Mensching, Friday 7 March 2008 at 17:31 :: Labor & Employment :: #1372 :: rss
The Chinese Daily news will appeal a court ruling that awarded former and current employees back pay for overtime violations, stating that the judge has “blatant biases and (made) judicial errors,” New America Media reported Friday.
Two hundred current and former newspaper employees filed the lawsuit against the Monterey Park, Calif.-based newspaper in March 2004. The Chinese Daily News is the Southern California edition of the World Journal, one of the largest Chinese-language newspapers in the United States.
In January, a federal jury agreed to award more than US$2.5 million for the workers. Combined with the judge's latest award, the total comes to $5.19 million, “the amount the plaintiffs asked for,” said Randy Renick, the workers' attorney, according to New America Media.
The Chinese Daily News made the announcement Thursday that it will appeal the court decision, calling the charges “totally false.”
“We are far from the sweat shop that they were trying to paint,” James Guo, president of Chinese Daily News, said in a statement, according to New America Media. “Chinese Daily News is a great employer and a wonderful place to work.”
Following the jury's decision in January, news of the case spread to other ethnic titles. Another top Chinese-language paper in the United States, The Sing Tao Daily, based in Hong Kong, began paying overtime to employees, New America Media reported.
The Asian media market has grown in the United States from about 250 to 700 in the last nine years.
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