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Seyfarth's Annual Workplace Class Action Report Was Featured In HR Dive
01 February 2017
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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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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