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How the NLRA May Slow Down the FAST Act

By Riley Lagesen, Jonathan S. Sack & Anthony E. Guzman II on October 18, 2022
Posted in California, California L&E Group, collective action, Featured, Labor & Employment, Legislation, minimum wage, Restaurant industry, State Law, Unions

With substantial union backing, California’s controversial Fast Food Accountability and Standards Recovery Act, A.B. 257 or the FAST Act, moved through California’s Legislature with relative ease.

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3rd Circuit Issues Practical Death Knell to Nationwide FLSA Collective Actions Involving Employers Not Subject to General Jurisdiction in Circuit

By Jim Boudreau & Malcolm Ingram on July 31, 2022
Posted in class action, collective action, Featured, Federal Law, FLSA, GT Alert, Litigation, Pennsylvania, Supreme Court, Uncategorized, Wage & Hour

On July 26, 2022, in a win for employers, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued a precedential opinion in Christa Fischer, et al. v. Federal Express Corp., et al, …
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California Court of Appeals are Split on Whether Employers Can Dismiss a PAGA Claim Based on Manageability

By Timothy Long & Rana Ayazi on May 5, 2022
Posted in California, California L&E Group, collective action, Employee Policies, Employer, Employment Law, Featured, Labor & Employment, PAGA, State Law, wages, Workplace

In Estrada v. Royalty Carpet Mills, Inc., 76 Cal. App. 5th 685 (2022), the California Court of Appeal, in relevant part, reversed a trial court’s order decertifying a subclass…
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First Circuit Court of Appeals Rejects Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Applicability to FLSA Collective Actions; Creates Circuit Split

By Charles O. Thompson & Ryan P. O'Connor on January 21, 2022
Posted in California L&E Group, collective action, Featured, Federal Law, FLSA, GT Alert, Litigation, Wage & Hour

In Waters v. Day & Zimmerman NPS, Inc., the First Circuit has seemingly muddied the waters on Bristol-Myers Squibb’s applicability to FLSA collective actions.

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2 US Circuit Courts Side with Employers, Limit Scope of FLSA Collective Actions Based on Failure to Establish Specific Personal Jurisdiction

By Charles O. Thompson & Ryan P. O'Connor on September 10, 2021
Posted in California L&E Group, class action, collective action, Featured, Federal Law, FLSA, GT Alert, Labor & Employment, Litigation, Wage & Hour

In 2017, the Supreme Court decided Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of California, addressing due process concerns related to personal jurisdiction in the context of an action where…
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Fifth Circuit Rejects Longstanding ‘Lenient’ Standard for Deciding Whether to Authorize Notice of a FLSA Collective Action

By Christiana L. Signs, Robert Goldich & Jim Boudreau on January 19, 2021
Posted in class action, collective action, Featured, Litigation, Pennsylvania

Employers have faced a tidal wave of Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) collective action litigation in the last 15 years, fueled in large part by courts that have made it…
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Greenberg Traurig’s Mark Kemple Receives National Law Journal’s Employment Law Trailblazer Award

By Greenberg Traurig, LLP on March 1, 2019
Posted in Awards and Accolades, class action, collective action, Labor & Employment

Mark D. Kemple, co-chair of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP’s Labor & Employment Class and Collective Action Practice and leader of the Southern California Labor & Employment …
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