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Alabama Federal Court Seals and Approves FLSA Settlement Agreement, Addresses Confidentiality Provision

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The plaintiff was employed by defendant Pilot Catastrophe Services Inc. as an insurance claims adjuster, where she was responsible for inspecting property damage claims and providing damage estimates to insurance companies....more

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Conditional Certification of an FLSA Collective Action Is Not a Foregone Conclusion in the Fifth Circuit

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The Western District of Texas recently denied a plaintiff’s motion to authorize notice to a purported collective of employees in a Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) case in Rodney Hoffman, on behalf of himself and all others...more

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Personal Jurisdiction of Opt-In Plaintiffs Under the FLSA: Will the Supreme Court Resolve the Circuit Split this Summer?

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

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Checking In: Wage Law Classification and Increased Litigation

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Amidst the rollercoaster of the last few years, it can be tempting to take for granted many of the workplace challenges that predated COVID-19. Many of those timeless employment law issues, however, have resurfaced with a...more

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Snapshot on Manufacturing Industry: February 2022

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Welcome to FP Snapshot on Manufacturing Industry, where we take a quick snapshot look at the most significant workplace law developments over the past month with an emphasis on how they impact manufacturers. OSHA Penalties...more

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Top 10 Wage and Hour Trends for 2022 – and What Employers Should Do to Prepare

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We recently provided our predictions for what employers could expect to see in the wage and hour field over the next year as part of our FP Forecast series – but we had too many insights to fit into that edition. So we’ve...more

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FLSA Misclassification Case Highlights The Vagaries Of The Administrative And Professional Exemptions

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There are certain industries or fields where misclassification issues are prevalent because the nature of the duties of the workers “seems” to smack of exempt work but then there is a doubt as to whether they truly meet all...more

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Fifth Circuit Shakes Up Standard for Certifying FLSA Collective Actions

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a potentially landmark decision in Swales v. KLLM Transport Services, L.L.C. on Jan. 12, 2021, rejecting more than 30 years of case law related to conditional...more

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Appeals Court Says No FLSA Notice for Employees Who Agree to Arbitrate

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On January 24, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit announced a new standard by which a district court should evaluate whether notice of an FLSA collective action should be sent to employees who may be...more

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The Seventh Circuit Rules on Whether to Send Notice in FLSA Collective Actions to Individuals with Arbitration Agreements

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On January 24, 2020, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals became the second federal appellate court to address whether notice of a collective action under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) may be sent to individuals who...more

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Seventh Circuit: No FLSA Collective Action Notice For Workers Subject To Individual Arbitration Agreements

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In Bigger v. Facebook, Inc., the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that courts should not authorize notice of a pending Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) collective action to individuals who have already entered...more

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Invitations (To Join FLSA Collective Actions) Have Consequences: Seventh Circuit Rules That FLSA Opt-In Notice Should Not Be Sent...

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Seyfarth Synopsis: An appellate court has ruled that a district court should not authorize notice of an FLSA suit to employees who are ineligible to join the suit because they agreed to resolve disputes exclusively through...more

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Cannabis Employers Can’t Escape Wage Claims, Says Court

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• Cannabis businesses must comply with federal wage and hour law, a federal appeals court ruled, despite the fact they operate in a field still illegal under another federal law. The court said two wrongs don’t make a right....more

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Fifth Circuit Holds Directional Drillers Are Independent Contractors

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently held that a group of directional driller consultants were independent contractors, not employees, in large part due to their highly specialized skills, degree of...more

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Gig Worker’s Hopes Of Arguing Case In Court Are Dashed By Arbitration Agreement

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A delivery driver for gig economy company DoorDash has been ordered by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to take his misclassification case to a private arbitrator instead of court pursuant to a valid arbitration agreement he...more

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Do Good Audits Exist? Minimizing Damages in FLSA Cases

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It's tax time, and perhaps the only thing worse than completing your tax returns is finding out that you're being audited. Common responses to undergoing an audit may involve gnashing of teeth, pulling of hair, and other...more

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Chadbourne Litigation Settles, Leaving Unanswered Questions About Equal Pay Claims

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The parties to a high-profile Equal Pay Act lawsuit have reached a multi-million dollar settlement that will be sure to capture the attention of employers across the country. Former partners of the law firm Chadbourne & Parke...more

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Web Exclusive: January 2018: The Top 18 Labor And Employment Law Stories

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there were an unprecedented number of changes each month in 2017—and if January is any...more

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What Do Sushi and Burritos Have in Common? Second Circuit Ready to Sample Tasty Wage-Hour Procedural Issues

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The Second Circuit will soon decide key issues for FLSA practitioners: whether settlements pursuant to an Offer of Judgment are subject to court review and approval, and whether the standards for final...more

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Oil Energy FLSA Exemption Collective Action Settles: The Right Move By The Employer 

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No industry is immune to FLSA collective actions and the energy industry is seeing a significant uptick in these actions. In this regard, a class of workers employed by an oil field services company has just agreed to a $2.1...more

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Putative Class and Collective Action Under Enjoined U.S. DOL Overtime Rule Appears to Face Strong Argument for Dismissal

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On June 7, 2107, a plaintiff brought a putative class and collective action against Chipotle for alleged violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act and New Jersey’s Wage and Hour Law. The plaintiff asserts the company...more

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Sheppard Mullin Secures Major Victory for Chipotle in Nationwide Misclassification Action By Demonstrating Variations Among...

The Court’s opinion in Scott v. Chipotle Mexican Grill demonstrates how employers can successfully combat class action claims that employees were misclassified as exempt. The successful defense of the class certification...more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

Hope for Employers: Court Says Home Health Aides Can’t Bring Collective Action

Courts have been quick to allow one employee claiming to be due overtime to sue on behalf of others in the same job category by certifying a collective action, allowing that employee to represent the class and requiring the...more

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And Now There Are Two: The Ninth Circuit Strikes Class Arbitration Waivers Joining the Seventh Circuit on Finding that these...

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The Ninth Circuit joined the Seventh Circuit and the NLRB in finding that mandatory arbitration agreements that require all claims to be brought by employees on an individual basis violate the NLRA. On...more

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Oilfield Service Companies Face Daunting Challenges

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A focus on oilfield services companies’ decades old compensation plans for their service technicians began shortly after President Obama took office in 2009. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) commenced a more concentrated...more

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