Payala v. Wipro Offers Effective Class Litigation Strategy

Perhaps no field of class action litigation in California is more fraught with complex certification issues than determining whether the administrative exemption applies to network, internet and database administrators or related positions in information technology departments. When faced with such a challenge in federal court, however, employers have consistently found success by demonstrating that common questions of law or fact do not predominate over the putative class members. This is true even if all of the other prerequisites for class certification have been satisfied

IT Workers Seek to Band Together to Bring Class Action

This issue was recently addressed in the Central District of California case of Payala v. Wipro Technologies Inc. In that case, an employee providing computer-related services claimed that he received compensation below the statutory threshold necessary to apply California’s computer software exemption. He presented evidence to show that