I used to be a forum leader on AOL, and I've been invited, with all the other former community leaders/remote staff, to join a class action suit against AOL. The basis of the suit is that we were treated like employees, had to keep regular hours, take inservice training, supervise other staff, make weekly reports of time and work, etc. etc., blah, blah, blah.
The fact is that we WERE treated like employees, and more so the longer we did it, but we all knew up front that we were not going to be paid, and we did it because it was a hobby.
Another former CL and I have been discussing this, and she is afraid to join the suit. She thinks that, if AOL wins, we will end up having to pay AOL instead of AOL having to pay us.
My wife was in a class action suit over her breat implants, but that suit was won and she received a settlement. But I have no idea what would happen if we lost.
Has anyone ever been in a class action suit and lost? What happened? Did you have to pay court costs/attorneys fees? I would not mind sticking it to AOL if I could, because at the end they buried our forum so nobody could find us, gave us no support, and then shut us down due to lack of use. But not enough to take a chance on having to pay them thousands of dollars.



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