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In an unpublished ruling last month, Federal Judge Alison Nathan of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted the request of counsel for a putative class of unpaid interns to use social media to target potential opt-in plaintiffs.

This blog has previously covered the arrest, prosecution and trial of Sergey Aleynikov, the former employee and computer programmer of the Goldman Sachs Group accused and convicted of misappropriating computer source code from Goldman.

With the publication of our Annual Study on EEOC Litigation, the reaction from clients and loyal blog readers has been great.

Seyfarth's Workplace Class Action Litigation Report was featured in a January 7 story from Am Law Litigation Daily

Seyfarth's Workplace Class Action Litigation Report was featured in a January 15 story from the Cook County Record

As claims brought under the Family and Medical Leave Act ("FMLA") continue to consume employers’ resources, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit may have helped ease the burden on litigants by clarifying a key issue.

Last week, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that employees may have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their text messages transmitted on pagers provided by their employer, despite policy warnings that such messages were subject to inspection.

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied certification of a petition challenging a California Supreme Court ruling that representative Private Attorneys General Act claims cannot be waived in employment arbitration agreements.

The U.S. Supreme Court has announced its intention to hear a case involving whether Title IX’s sex discrimination protections apply to college coaches and professors, not just students.

Dan Popescu sued Apple Inc. for damages after he was fired by his employer, Constellium Rolled Products Ravenswood, LLC.

For years, California employers have commonly used "rounding policies" — the adjusting of an employee's time punches either up or down to the nearest time increment. On their face, such policies seem practical for employers, easily allowing them to calculate compensation in whole numbers.

The suit also alleges that employees were forced to engage in prayer, wear Onionhead-related pins, and burn candles in the workplace.

As profiled in our Workplace Class Action Report for 2017, overall complex employment-related litigation filings increased in 2016 insofar as employment discrimination cases were concerned...

I have just posted the other day about a New Jersey initiative to expand the reach of independent contractor misclassification to the trucking industry and now the Third Circuit has certified a question to the New Jersey Supreme Court on this very issue.

What can an employer do when its employee accesses data in a way that violates company policy? In the past, one avenue for relief was the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act...

In this opinion, the California Supreme Court answered a question certified to it by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

The need to conduct internal investigations has continued, even in a COVID and remote environment.