Leveraging the Strength in Numbers
When it comes to lawsuits, there is strength in numbers. In a class action, individuals or small groups can bring a claim on behalf of themselves and a class of people who have had similar experiences. Our lawyers bring employment class actions when an illegal company policy negatively impacts workers or when a company engages in illegal conduct against a group of employees.
Class actions get the attention of employers in a way that individual claims don't. Our employment class actions typically begin with a complaint by just one person whose experience is shared by other employees. Those complaints include:
- Systemic class-wide discrimination: We investigate situations where employers discriminate against groups of employees who are protected under the law for such characteristics as gender, race, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, or age.
- WARN Act violations: We can represent employees when advanced notification about group layoffs has not been given as required by the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act.
- Employee misclassification as independent contractor: We investigate situations where workers are wrongly classified as independent contractors. This includes food industry or other drivers classified as independent contractors who are controlled as if they were employees.
- Employee misclassification as exempt: We investigate cases of employment misclassification where employees should be earning overtime but are wrongly classified as exempt.
- Other types of wage theft: This includes situations where employees are not paid for all of the time they work.
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Class actions allow us to use our collective strength to make companies accountable to employees. The class action litigation team at Halunen & Associates is committed to fearless representation of employees against large corporations in both national and state actions. Please contact our offices for a free consultation if you believe that you and others have been wronged as employees.
