The eurozone's economic powers are struggling to agree on a new debt crisis plan to present at an emergency EU summit, with Germany downplaying calls from France and Brussels for a big announcement that could boost market confidence and contain the turmoil.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy was flying to Berlin on Wednesday afternoon in an apparent last-minute bid to strike a deal with Chancellor Angela Merkel on some kind of new aid package for Greece.

The stakes are high. Markets have been extremely volatile over the past weeks on fears the crisis might spread to larger countries like Italy. The International Monetary Fund warned that leaders must do more to keep debt troubles from poisoning the entire continent's economy.

Germany and France will discuss "all the options on the table and agree, if possible, on a joint position," said Merkel's spokesman, Steffen Seibert. Germany is optimistic that Thursday's summit will agree on "a good solution that will move us forward," he added.

But he reiterated Merkel's stance that the talks will not yield a "spectacular solution" that fixes Greece's problems quickly, but will be merely a stepping stone in a longer process. Merkel had said there would be no decision to restructure Greece's debt or create eurobonds that link debt across countries.

On March 28, 2011, the California employment law attorneys at Blumenthal, Nordrehaug & Bhowmik filed a class action lawsuit against AT&T alleging that the wireless provider violated California wage & hour laws by mislabeling at-home virtual call center employees as independent contractors in order to avoid paying these employees for all of the hours they work, including overtime hours and minimum wages.

The California employment law attorneys at Blumenthal, Nordrehaug & Bhowmik have filed a class action lawsuit against AT&T in Northern California alleging that the wireless phone giant has violated the rights of at-home virtual call center employees under the California Labor Code. The class action lawsuit against AT&T for Labor Code violations was filed on March 28, 2011 in the Northern District of California, entitled Perry v. AT&T and Arise, Case No. CV111498JCS.

According to the class action complaint filed against AT&T by the labor law attorneys at Blumenthal, Nordrehaug & Bhowmik, the mobile and wireless provider has hired at-home call center employees to provide billing and technical support for AT&T customers. The complaint alleges that AT&T devised an illegal scheme of mislabeling these virtual at-home call center employees as independent contractors in order to avoid workers' compensation costs as well as paying state and/or federal taxes.

The AT&T call center employee class action lawsuit further alleges that the wireless provider intentionally misclassified the at-home virtual call center employees as independent contractors in order to get around wage & hour requirements in violation of California employment laws. Whereas the state’s minimum wage rules, lunch break requirements and overtime laws protect employees, the laws do not apply to independent contractors.

The AT&T overtime class action lawsuit alleges that the wireless provider mislabeled at-home call center employees because these workers are required to perform work subject to AT&T’s control. AT&T has the authority to exercise complete control over the work performed and the manner in which the work is performed by these at-home call center employees. Further, AT&T controls the at-home virtual call center employees’ work schedule and hours, according to the complaint.

For more information, visit the AT&T at-home virtual call center employee class action lawsuit website or call (866) 771-7099.

With its main employment law office located in San Diego County, the California employment law attorneys at Blumenthal, Nordrehaug & Bhowmik have a statewide practice of representing employees on a contingency basis for violations involving wages and hours, overtime pay, discrimination, harassment and wrongful termination.