Seyfarth’s annual Workplace Class Action Report was featured in "Expert: Wage and hour class action suits dipped slightly in 2016, but expect 2017 uptick," a January 23 story by HR Dive. Authored by Gerald Maatman, this year’s report said that class action suits numbered 8,304 in 2016, down from 8,954 in 2015. Maatman said that courts grant conditional certification to wage and hour class action suits filed under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) 75% of the time.
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