Labor Law Violations, Appeals, Collective Actions

For Richards And Not For Poorer: Employers in the Seventh Circuit Get Reprieve From Unfair FLSA Collective Certification Standard

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 8/8/2025

The Seventh Circuit has joined the Fifth and Sixth Circuits in establishing a higher bar for employees to clear before courts may authorize “notice” to potential members of an FLSA collective action. Although the Seventh...more

Where It’s Filed Really Matters: Jurisdictional Limits in Wage and Hour Litigation

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 7/14/2025

The Ninth Circuit’s decision in Harrington v. Cracker Barrel underscores the growing importance of personal jurisdiction in limiting the scope of FLSA collective actions. The court held that employees with no connection to...more

Understanding Arbitration and Equitable Estoppel: Lessons From Gonzalez v. Nowhere Beverly Hills LLC

ArentFox Schiff on 12/23/2024

Employment arbitration agreements are an important tool for employers who wish to resolve workplace disputes in a more streamline fashion and, more importantly, avoid class and collective actions. However, enforcing...more

Littler Lightbulb – March Employment Appellate Roundup

Littler on 3/31/2023

This Littler Lightbulb highlights some of the more significant employment and labor law developments at the U.S. Supreme Court and federal courts of appeal over the last month....more

5th Circuit: Arbitration Available for Employee’s Collective Action Claims

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace on 5/12/2020

On April 16, 2020, the Fifth Circuit held that an employee is entitled to arbitrate his federal labor law claims as a collective action on behalf of his coworkers against their employer, Sun Coast Resources, Inc. (“Sun...more

Cannabis Employers Can’t Escape Wage Claims, Says Court

Fisher Phillips on 9/30/2019

• 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

CBAs Must Specifically State Intent to Arbitrate Statutory Rights

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 2/13/2017

Seyfarth Synopsis: The Court of Appeal has held that unless a collective bargaining agreement includes an explicitly stated, clear and unmistakable, intent to waive the right to a judicial forum for statutory causes of...more

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