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AT&T is facing two class action lawsuits that could cost the4 company as much as $1 billion. Jesse Russell reports:

Two class action lawsuits have been filed against AT&T by workers demanding nearly $1 billion in overtime. The telecommunication company has a seven-tier management structure where first level managers – the lowest on the pole – have allegedly been denied overtime even as they work more than 40 hours per week. According to the suit in some cases those managers worked upwards of 100 hours per week without overtime. The law firm representing the workers in the case says that according to federal and some state labor laws that in order to not pay overtime to managers responsibilities need to be made clear and in the case of AT&T the first-level managers have very limited supervisory roles.