By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr., Christopher J. DeGroff, and Matthew J. Gagnon
Seyfarth Synopsis: Reviewing the EEOC’s case filings during the first half of the Commission’s fiscal year may already reveal some surprising trends, most notably a sharp uptick in the total number of case filings – up 75% from the same point last year – and a
Continue Reading Midyear Peek: What Has The EEOC Been Up To In FY 2017?
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. and Alex W. Karasik
Seyfarth Synopsis: Following an employer’s reduction-in-force that ultimately led to an ADEA collective action after several employees over 50 years old were terminated, a federal district court in Florida recently granted a motion to conditionally certify a collective action of employees who worked at the employer’s Tampa, Florida location, but
Continue Reading Florida Federal Court Grants Conditional Certification In ADEA Collective Action Following Employer’s Reduction-In-Force
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. and Michael L. DeMarino
Seyfarth Synopsis: After thirty-three former employees who signed release agreements requiring individual arbitration of ADEA claims collectively sued their employer for age discrimination, the employer moved to compel individual arbitration. The District Court denied the company’s motion. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed because it
Continue Reading Eighth Circuit Decides That Arbitration Agreements Cover ADEA Collective Actions
Happy Holiday season to our loyal readers of the Workplace Class Action Blog!
Our elves are busy at work this holiday season in wrapping up our start-of-the-year kick-off publication – Seyfarth Shaw’s Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report.
We anticipate going to press in early January, and launching the 2017 Report to our readers from our Blog.
This will be
Continue Reading The 2017 Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report Is Coming Soon!
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. and Reanne Swafford-Harris
Seyfarth Synopsis: Relief sought in age discrimination litigation is limited to the specific remedies described in the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (“ADEA”).
In a ruling on April 26, 2016, in K.H., et al., v. Secretary of The Department of Homeland Security, Case No. 15-CV-02740 (N.D. Cal. Apr. 26, 2016), Judge
Continue Reading Court Curtails Relief For Age Discrimination Collective Action Litigation
Our 2016 Workplace Class Action Report is now available. At 853 pages, it analyzes 1,314 rulings and is our biggest and best Report ever.
Click here to order your copy in eBook format. Click here to download Chapter 1 on the 2015 Executive Summary/Key Trends. Our annual webinar on the Report is now set for
Continue Reading It’s Here – Seyfarth’s 2016 Workplace Class Action Report
Happy Holiday season to our loyal readers of the Workplace Class Action Blog!
Our elves are busy at work this holiday season in wrapping up the galley proofs of our start-of-the-year kick-off publication – Seyfarth Shaw’s Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report.
We anticipate going to press in the first week of January, and launching
Continue Reading The 2016 Workplace Class Action Report Is Just Around The Corner…
As the EEOC’s fiscal year wound down as of September 30th, the Commission filed a slew of lawsuits. This year, the EEOC filed 62 lawsuits in September.
LXBN TV profiled our analysis of this “lawsuit filing frenzy,” which is offered here for our loyal blog readers.
Readers can find this post on our EEOC
Continue Reading The 2015 EEOC Lawsuit Filing Frenzy
By Matthew J. Gagnon, Christopher DeGroff, and Gerald L. Maatman, Jr.
As the clock ticked down on the EEOC’s fiscal year (which ended on September 30), we are struck once again by the eerily consistent trend in the agency’s federal court filing trends. Employers around the country are seemingly trapped in the “Groundhog’s-day-like” loop that occurs each September.
Continue Reading Groundhog Day In September – Another Repeat Of The EEOC Fiscal Year-End Lawsuit Filing Frenzy
By William David and Laura J. Maechtlen
As we reported here to our loyal blog readers, in April 2014, the Ninth Circuit overturned an order denying class certification of age discrimination claims filed by a group of police officers in Stockwell v. City & Cnty. of San Francisco , 749 F.3d 1107 (9th Cir. 2014). On remand, the officers filed
Continue Reading Stock-Not So-Well: Officers Denied Class Certification Of Age Discrimination Claims (Again)
