04 Dec Wage Wars: The Plaintiff’s Bar Awakens
Fair Labor Standards Act | BT Currents2015 has been a banner year for wage & hour litigation. Roughly 9,000 new federal wage & hour lawsuits were filed as of Sept. 30 – with many thousands more filed in state courts. New federal filings have increased about 450 percent over the last 15 years, according to a recent study by Seyfarth Shaw. What’s more, the trend is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. The problems for employers are at least threefold: 1). Wage & hour issues can be extremely…