October 03, 2024
A Seventh Circuit panel's decision that out-of-state workers couldn't join an overtime collective suit by H-2A temporary agricultural workers erodes the Fair Labor Standards Act's goal, a group of law professors said, backing the workers' bid to have the full court weigh in.
August 20, 2024
The Seventh Circuit's ruling that bars out-of-state workers from joining a wage and hour collective action against a multistate employer is likely to lead to separate cases being filed in multiple states, attorneys told Law360.
August 16, 2024
Collective suits are similar to mass actions consolidating individual cases, a split Seventh Circuit panel found Friday, ruling in a Fair Labor Standards Act overtime suit from H-2A temporary agricultural workers that a court needs to establish jurisdiction over each member of the collective.