The Sixth Circuit will soon tell us whether it will follow the Fifth Circuit’s lead in Swales v. KLLM Transport Services LLC and adopt a more exacting, one-stage certification approach for Fair Labor Standards Act collective...more
The Fifth Circuit recently became the first federal court of appeals to hold that employees who signed arbitration agreements should not receive notice of collective actions. This case of first impression among the courts of...more
A New York district court magistrate judge conditionally certified a class of past and current entry-level female sales representatives of Forest Laboratories, Inc. and Forest Pharmaceuticals, Inc. under the Equal Pay Act....more
9/15/2015
/ Civil Rights Act ,
Class Action ,
Class Certification ,
Collective Actions ,
Disparate Impact ,
Equal Pay ,
Equal Pay Act ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) ,
FRCP 23 ,
Gender Discrimination ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Sexual Harassment ,
Title VII ,
Wage and Hour