Last week, I blogged about a lawsuit where the allegations were that the Company failed to pay properly and record time properly, due to its involvement in the Kronos Hack
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A New Twist On A FLSA Class Action—The Kronos Hack Made Me Do It!
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I have defended all manner of class actions, exemption, working time, independent contractor, but this case is a novel twist on that theme. A group of employees is suing a…
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Preliminary/Postliminary Class Action (Again): What Does “Integral” Mean To Make Pre-Shift Activities Compensable
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How many times have I written about working time cases, so called “off the clock” cases, where the claimed compensable time arises from preliminary or postliminary activities that are tied…
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FLSA Training Time Class Action Highlights the Nuances of ‘Working Time’ Issues
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To me, working time lawsuits are almost the most dangerous for an employer because they often will affect many employees, lending themselves (easily) to a purported class action. A recent…
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FLSA Travel Time Class Action For Oil & Gas Workers Gets Conditional Certification: Now, The Fun Begins!
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I had blogged about this case some months ago and am interested in following it through. Now, a Judge has granted conditional certification to a class of oil and gas…
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Piece Rate Overtime FLSA Class Action Shows Danger In Improper Overtime Computation: The Nuances of the Overtime Regulations (29 CFR 778)
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I have many clients that want to comply with the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) and pay workers properly, especially for overtime. However, I have found that even the most…
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These Pre-Shift Working Time Cases Keep Popping Up–Employers Beware!
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Many employers believe that if an employee (or many employees) perform a tiny amount of work, or work-like activity, before their shifts, that brief off-the-clock, activity cannot be “working time”…
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Yet Another FLSA Call Center Working Time Class Action—Here We Go Again!
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I have written about call center cases, which involve allegedly unpaid working time, many times. Well, they continue to pop up. In a recent case, a class of workers claim…
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Not Another Class Action Seeking Payment For COVID Testing!–Employer Compulsion The Key?
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The thorny issue of what constitutes “working time” is always causing headaches for employers and the pandemic period has increased these concerns greatly, with demands made for compensation for testing…
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Trial Before Certification in FLSA Class Action Case?—Third Circuit Says No Way!
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In a chicken-and-egg type of case, an unusual case, the Third Circuit has emphatically held a Judge taking over a class action case must deal with the threshold issue of…
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