Staff Sues AT&T Over On-Call Work

The wireless telephone industry is facing more legal woes from on-call employees coast to coast.

AT&T last week was hit with a federal class action in California, accusing the telephone giant of requiring its information technology staff to remain on call at all times of the day for troubleshooting, but not paying them for the work performed while on call.

On the opposite end of the country, a similar class action was filed last month in New York against T-Mobile USA.