Earlier this year, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) held in D.R. Horton that a class action waiver that required, as a condition of employment , the employee to waive his rights to class-action litigation while simultaneously waiving his rights to class-action arbitration was illegal under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The NLRB opined … Continue reading
After the Wal-Mart v. Dukes class action suit was shot down by the Supreme Court in June 2011, there were founded concerns that class actions based on retail or customer service employees’ policies were in peril. On Friday, an Illinois federal judge validated a class of plaintiffs, consisting of tipped employees of the Applebee’s franchise, … Continue reading
