Rest and Meal Break, Settlement

Ninth Circuit Affirms State Court’s Authority to Approve Class Action Settlements

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 3/29/2022

Absent class members in state-court class actions cannot pursue individual claims in federal court when the class has entered into a settlement releasing all such claims and a state court has entered final judgment approving...more

Settling Individual California Labor Disputes May Eliminate PAGA Claims

Hogan Lovells on 1/11/2018

On December 29, California’s Second Appellate District held that employees who settle and dismiss their individual wage claims may not assert claims under the state’s Private Attorneys General Act (“PAGA”) on behalf of other...more

Litigating California Wage & Hour and Labor Code Class Actions

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 9/28/2016

Introduction and Overview - Since the turn of the century, there has been a huge increase in the number of class action lawsuits alleging violations of California’s overtime laws or other Labor Code statutes and wage and...more

Employment Law - June 2015

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 6/15/2015

Actual Knowledge by Employer Not Necessary for Title VII Religious Discrimination Claim, U.S. Supreme Court Rules - Why it matters: In a closely watched case, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with a teenage applicant to...more

California Employment Law Notes - July 2013

Proskauer Rose LLP on 7/12/2013

Employee Must Prove That Illegal Retaliation Was The "But For" Cause Of Adverse Job Action Under Title VII - University of Tex. S.W. Med. Ctr. v. Nassar, 570 U.S. ___, 2013 WL 3155234 (2013) - The United States...more

Top Ten Wage and Hour Developments in 2012 for Pennsylvania Employers

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 1/8/2013

For employers in Pennsylvania, 2012 was another eventful year in the world of wage and hour law. Even in the absence of new federal legislation, a number of noteworthy developments occurred at both the federal and state...more