Class Actions

Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court found that a plaintiff could not maintain a collective action under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) when her former employer had offered her full monetary…

Over the last two years, California employers have gotten progressively better news from the state and federal courts on the wage and hour class action front.  The trend began in…

In 2005, Congress enacted the Class Action Fairness Act, or “CAFA” as it is popularly known. CAFA is a piece of tort reform legislation.  It was enacted against the backdrop…

If only class actions were as easy as a Dr. Seuss book.  It has been several years since “suitable seating” cases gained popularity among the plaintiff’s bar, leaving employers in…

Last week, the California Supreme Court declined to review a challenge to an appellate decision on the lawfulness of timekeeping policies that round employee punch in and out times.  The…

Take a look at our recent e-Alert on the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which found that President Obama’s recess appointments to the National…

In an employer-friendly decision, a California Court of Appeal affirmed the dismissal of a class action and ordered arbitration of the individual employee’s claim in Outland, et al. v. Macy’s…

The U. S. Supreme Court continued its trend of pro-employer arbitration decisions in Nitro Lift Technologies, LLC v. Eddie Lee Howard, finding that the federal policy favoring arbitration trumped a…

In a post-Brinker and Dukes world, employer-friendly wage-hour decisions are becoming more and more common.  The decision of the California First District Court of Appeal’s decision in Morgan v. Wet…