With the help of Kevin O’Keefe’s LexBlog, Baker Hostetler’s employment group has come blazing into the world of 21st century social media with its new law blog, aptly named Employment Class Action Blog. The quality entries submitted so far include case summaries, practice tips, legislative updates, and analysis covering a variety of employment class action-related topics. [...]
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Baker Hostetler Employment Group Launches Employment Class Action Blog
Posted in Employment Class Actions, Other class action blogs, tagged amlaw 100, amlaw 200, baker & hosetler, Baker Hostetler, employment class action, employment litigation, lexblog on October 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Law Society Gazette: Government Report Calls for Opt-Out Collective Action Procedure for UK Employment Cases
Posted in Class Action News, International Class Action Law, tagged employment class action, employment discrimination, England class action, England collective action, equal pay class action, UK class action, UK collective action on August 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One more abbreviated post before I return from vacation. Neil Rose of the British publication the Law Society Gazette reports that the paper has obtained unpublished government research calling for an opt-out collective action procedure for dealing with a backlog of equal pay, discrimination, and other employment claim against government agencies in the UK. Here’s a link: http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/class-actions-employment-tribunals-called-government-research
Seyfarth Shaw Report Tracks Trends in Workplace Class and Collective Actions
Posted in Class Action Trends, Employment Class Actions, tagged employment and labor, employment class action, ERISA Class Action, labor class action, workplace class action on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Karen Sloan authored this January 21 article in The National Law Journal (available at Law.com) summarizing a recent report by Chicago employment defense firm Seyfarth Shaw summarizing trends in employment-related class and collective actions in 2008. The NLJ article’s summary offers the not-so-surprising conclusion that the poor economy is helping to fuel a surge in class and collective actions [...]
California Labor Law’s Extraterritorial Reach
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Class Action Trends, Federal Court Decisions, tagged Baker Hostetler, employment class action, wage and hour class action on November 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Baker Hostetler’s Employment and Labor Group issued an Executive Alert today on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ wage and hour decision in Sullivan et al. v. Oracle Corporation, (case no. 06-56649), where the court found that California state overtime rules apply to non-residents who perform work in California. The group has this to say about the [...]
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Prospecting for Class Action Gold in Canada
Posted in Class Action Trends, Commentary, International Class Action Law, tagged canadian class action law, Class Action Trends, class counsel, employment class action, entrepreneurial litigation, International Class Action Law, lead counsel, private ordering on August 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Canadian attorney Howard Levitt has an interesting article published today on FinancialPost.com about trends in Canadian employment class action law. The article offers some practical preventative tips for employers, but also makes a few keen observations about the dynamics surrounding a recent increase in employment class actions in Canada, including this gem: It’s a new phenomenon: Roving groups of lawyers searching for corporate [...]
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