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Massachusetts District Court Denies Certification for Claims of Unpaid Meal Breaks

By Greg Mersol on July 18, 2017 Posted in Wage and Hour

It has become almost part of the plaintiff playbook to bring wage and hour claims despite lawful employer policies by claiming some sort of “class-wide” policy of deviating from those policies. Sadly, this tactic works at least as often as not in collective action litigation, where many courts are quick to conditionally certify even questionable … Continue Reading

Court Approves Overtime Class Settlement After Initially Rejecting It

By Greg Mersol on January 16, 2015 Posted in Meal and Rest Periods

We wrote last May about the court’s rejection of a $1.75 million settlement in Cruz v. Sky Chefs, Inc., Case No. C-12-02705 DMR (N.D. Cal. 2014) [May 27, 2014]. The court’s decision related to the settlement of run-of-the-mill California wage and hour claims purportedly brought on behalf of approximately 3,000 employees involved in the preparation … Continue Reading