Employment Litigation, Putative Class Actions, Corporate Counsel

“No-poach” class actions: Fourth Circuit reinstates naval engineers’ Sherman Act claims against shipbuilders

Kilpatrick on 6/30/2025

Takeaway: We have written about “no-poach” class actions, in which employers allegedly conspire not to recruit or hire each other’s employees with the intent of driving down wages. See Eleventh Circuit reinstates no-hire...more

California Court Rules That Mandatory Service Charges May Be Gratuities

Epstein Becker & Green on 11/13/2019

Upsetting what many considered settled precedent, a California Court of Appeal has held that a mandatory service charge may qualify as a “gratuity” under California Labor Code Section 351 that must be distributed to the...more

Fifth Circuit Holds District Courts in FLSA Actions May Not Send Notice to Employees with Valid Arbitration Agreements that...

Littler on 2/27/2019

In one of the most significant Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) appellate decisions in recent years, on February 21, 2019, a three-judge panel on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously held that “district courts may...more

Employment Litigation › Putative Class Actions › Corporate Counsel

“No-poach” class actions: Fourth Circuit reinstates naval engineers’ Sherman Act claims against shipbuilders

California Court Rules That Mandatory Service Charges May Be Gratuities

Fifth Circuit Holds District Courts in FLSA Actions May Not Send Notice to Employees with Valid Arbitration Agreements that...

NY Federal Court Significantly Limits Scope of Equal Pay Case

California Class Action Highlights How to Manage an Overtime Policy

Are Defendants Required To Create Datasets to Respond to Discovery Requests in Class Actions?

N.Y. Decision May Hinder Early Class Action Settlements

Ninth Circuit Snubs Stolt-Nielsen, Holds Generic Employee Arbitration Agreement Permits Class-wide Arbitration

Employment Litigation › Putative Class Actions › Corporate Counsel

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