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On August 29, 2024, a Seventh Circuit panel granted a midsuit request from Eli Lilly & Company to review a district court order granting collective certification to a sales representative in her age discrimination lawsuit....more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has delivered a significant win for employers by ruling that the Supreme Court’s 2017 decision in Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of California applies to Fair...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit joins a growing number of federal circuits to hold the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2017 decision in Bristol-Myers Squibb v. Superior Court, that sharply limited the use of nationwide...more
In the wake of the pandemic, some employers — opting for the carrot over the stick — have started offering weekly attendance bonuses to incentivize a return to the office. We have recently seen an uptick in employee-filed...more
Recently the English Court of Appeal (CoA) in Evans v Barclays & Ors1 overturned a decision of the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT), allowing a follow-on damages claim against various international banks to proceed on an...more
This Littler Lightbulb highlights some of the more significant employment law developments at the U.S. Supreme Court and federal courts of appeal in the last month....more
On May 19, 2023, in Clark v. A&L Home Care and Training Center, LLC., the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit rejected the familiar two-step certification procedure in collective actions under the Fair Labor...more
A Pennsylvania battery manufacturer has the dubious distinction of being ordered to pay the largest jury verdict ever awarded to the Department of Labor under the Fair Labor Standards Act - a cool $22 million for failing to...more
On April 14, 2023, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (Ellis, J.) declined to conditionally certify a collective of USA Today sports website editors, ruling that the familiar two-step Fair...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: In what could become a trend, Judge T.S. Ellis, III recently broke with other courts in the Eastern District of Virginia when he rejected the two-step conditional certification process commonly used in FLSA...more
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to settle the circuit split on whether its 2017 decision in Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of Cal. applies to collective actions brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act...more
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark opinion in Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of California, 137 S. Ct. 1773 (2017), a question arising under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) collective actions is...more
In the UK, since 2015, there has been a statutory class action regime allowing full opt-out or opt-in class actions for claim for breach of competition law. Competition claims require approval (or certification) before...more
Business development managers, whose job was to convince corporate customers to purchase General Motors vehicles for their corporate fleets, qualified for the administrative exemption from the overtime provisions of the Fair...more
President Biden is imminently expected to sign into law the “Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act” (the “Act”), which will have significant, immediate ramifications for employers who have...more
While group litigation and collective actions have traditionally been more difficult to pursue in the UK than in the U.S., changes to UK civil procedure rules and societal attitudes towards group ligation means that these...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Plaintiffs asserting federal and state wage and hour claims in one action often pursue both class certification of state claims under Rule 23 and collective action certification under the FLSA. In that...more
After protracted challenges to class certification status, in Merricks v Mastercard the U.K. Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) granted its first collective proceedings order (CPO). The claim remains huge, comprising 46.2...more
On August 17, 2021, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals became the first federal appellate court to expressly rule on the application of the Supreme Court of the United States’ decision in Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior...more
This week has seen a major breakthrough in the UK’s fledgling class action regime, which brought opt-out collective proceedings to the UK for the first time back in 2015. The first opt-out collective action has now been...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Since the Supreme Court’s 2017 decision in Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court, federal district courts around the country have wrestled with whether they may exercise personal jurisdiction over...more
Upholding the trial court’s dismissal of an FLSA collective action, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reiterated that an employee’s commute time is compensable only when the commute is “integral and indispensable” to the...more
The European Parliament formally endorsed the text of a new collective actions legislation, “Directive (EU) 2020/1828 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2020 on Representative Actions for the...more
A Wisconsin-based healthcare worker recently filed a proposed collective and class action complaint against an assisted living facility alleging it required all employees to undergo mandatory temperature checks and complete a...more
In a provocative decision in the case known as Swales v. KLLM Transport Servs., L.L.C., No. 19-60847 (5th Cir. 2021), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit broke from the pack by upending the standard two-step...more