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More workers sue Microsoft.
Business Insurance, November, 1998
SEATTLE -- A new group of temporary workers at Microsoft Corp. has filed a lawsuit seeking to obtain benefits enjoyed by regular workers of the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last year that Microsoft improperly excluded workers wrongly classified as independent contractors from its 401(k) and stock purchasing plans (BI, July 28, 1997).
In July, a U.S. District Court judge in Seattle limited the scope of the class-action lawsuit, ruling it applied only to those 200 to 300 people who were temporary workers from 1987 through 1990. In the lawsuit filed last week in the U.S. District Court in Western Washington, 10 temporary workers hired by Microsoft after 1990 are seeking to participate in the savings plans as...
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