Seyfarth’s 10th annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report reveals transitive year, new challenges for employers facing workplace class action litigation in 2014
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Described as the "definitive source of information on employment class action litigation" and a resource that "no practitioner who deals with employment claims. . . should be without" by
"In the past two years, we have seen a combination of
More than any other development in 2013, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes continued to have a wide-ranging impact on virtually all class actions pending in federal and state courts throughout the country. Many Rule 23 decisions in 2013 pivoted off of Wal-Mart and leverage points in class action litigation increased or decreased depending on the manner in which judges interpreted and applied Wal-Mart.
In addition to these Rule 23 developments, the Seyfarth Report discusses a number of key trends for employers to heed in 2014, including:
- The increasing focus of the
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on high-stakes, big-impact litigation - A continuing rising tide of Wage & Hour cases
- Implications of the
Supreme Court's first ruling on the Class Action Fairness Act inStandard Fire Insurance Co. v.Knowles - Additions to the increasing number of rulings allowing employers to use arbitration agreements to manage class action risks
- Rapid strategic changes due to rulings like Comcast Corp. v. Behrends
Divided into detailed chapters on leading class action settlements, federal law rulings, and state law rulings, the substantive areas examined by the Report include: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; EEOC pattern or practice cases; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act; the Fair Labor Standards Act; the Employee Retirement Income Security Act; state law rulings in employment law, wage and hour, and breach of contract cases; key CAFA rulings, and other class action rulings with significance to Rule 23 and/or workplace litigation.
The eBook is fully searchable, compatible with all major devices, allows readers to bookmark useful sections for easy future reference, and includes a number of other features, such as note-taking, highlighting and more. To order the Workplace Class Action Litigation Report, please click here.
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