Wage and Hour, Class Members, Employer Liability Issues

Frying the Certification: Fourth Circuit Turns Up the Heat, Reversing Class Certification Decision for Bojangles Shift Managers In...

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 12/23/2024

Class Certification Recipe Needs More Flavor: The Fourth Circuit tossed out a class certification order for Bojangles’ shift managers, citing a high level of generality in identifying common policies and overly broad class...more

[Webinar] Expert Summit for Employment Attorneys: NEW BONUS SESSION: Expert Testimony in Wage and Hour Litigation - March 2nd,...

DCI Consulting on 2/20/2023

Federal and state wage and hour litigation has been an area of concentration for Industrial/Organizational Psychologists for decades. These cases address alleged discrimination in wage-based employment practices such as...more

Class Action Claims Were Moot After Class Representative Settled His Individual Claims

Proskauer - California Employment Law on 8/14/2020

Brady v. AutoZone Stores, 960 F.3d 1172 (9th Cir. 2020) - Michael Brady sued AutoZone Stores for alleged violations of Washington State’s meal break laws. After several years of litigation, the district court denied...more

Judge Refuses To Dismiss Domino’s Collective Action Without Seeing Settlement Agreement

FordHarrison on 6/27/2019

On May 17, 2019, Judge Renee Marie Bumb of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey rejected the parties’ request to dismiss a Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) lawsuit without the Judge’s review of the...more

7-Year Equal Pay Class and Collective Action in NJ Could Settle for $6.2 Million

Fisher Phillips on 1/11/2019

More than seven years ago, female sales representatives who worked for Merck filed a class and collective action alleging discrimination in pay on the basis of their gender in violation of the Equal Pay Act (EPA) and Title...more

Don’t Count Your Chickens – Or State Citizens For CAFA Exceptions – Before They Hatch

Carlton Fields on 11/6/2018

The Ninth Circuit vacated a remand order implicating the local and home-state controversy exceptions to CAFA jurisdiction in a putative class action by former California resident employees of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) for...more

The California Supreme Court To Decide Whether California’s Labor Laws Apply To Employees Who Work Only Partially In California

BakerHostetler on 8/17/2018

For a company that does 100 percent of its business in California and employs workers who perform 100 percent of their work in California, it would not be surprising for the workers’ employment to be governed by California’s...more

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