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Co-authored by Noah Finkel and Andrew Scroggins

Employers have faced questions about the enforceability of arbitration agreements with class and collective action waivers since the NLRB’s highly controversial D.R. Horton decision in 2012, which held that the waivers violate employees’ right to engage in protected concerted activity. The Fifth Circuit refused to enforce the decision, and other courts followed…
Continue Reading Mandatory Arbitration, Class Waivers, and the Future of Wage-Hour Litigation: 6th Circuit Shows One Reason Why High Court Rejection of D.R. Horton Theory Would Not Kill Collective Actions

Co-authored by Colleen Regan and David Kadue

Gentry is dead.  Back in 2007, the California Supreme Court, in Gentry v. Superior Court held that California public policy favoring class actions was so important that employers cannot have employees, in arbitration agreements, waive their right to pursue a class action.  Many thought that the Gentry rule contradicted the Federal Arbitration Act,…
Continue Reading BREAKING NEWS RE CALIFORNIA CLASS ACTION WAIVERS: GENTRY IS DEAD; LONG LIVE PAGA.

Co-authored by Joshua Seidman and Nadia Bandukda

D.R. Horton Who?  Who is not the question here, it is why and what is going on with the NLRB saga?  Last week, the NLRB filed a petition for rehearing with the Fifth Circuit seeking reconsideration and reversal of the appellate court’s December 2013 decision regarding employee class action waivers. 

The Board’s petition…
Continue Reading D.R. Horton Rehears a Who: NLRB Files Petition for Rehearing with Fifth Circuit

Authored by Alex Passantino

It’s the week before Christmas, so you know it’s the time
For our review of the year—our wage-hour rhyme.
Our look-back on issues from the past 52 weeks
That grabbed the attention of you wage-hour geeks.

Leading us off is no big surprise:
FLSA filings continue to rise.
A 10% bump; they’re not going away,…
Continue Reading Donning Your Kerchief and Doffing Your Cap: 2013 Year in Review

MA SJCAuthored by Jeff Burns

After the Supreme Court’s June 20, 2013 decision in American Express Co. v. Italian Colors Restaurant (AmEx) (here), many questioned whether AmEx abrogated other state court decisions that had invalidated class arbitration agreements based on the “effective vindication” doctrine.

Today (here), the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) answered that…
Continue Reading The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Reluctantly Agrees That Its June 2013 Decision On Class Arbitration Waivers Is No Longer Good Law