Wage-and-hour suits top workplace class actions

CHICAGO—Wage-and-hour litigation outpaced all other types of workplace class actions in 2005 and accelerated from past years, particularly at the state court level, according to an annual report by Chicago-based law firm Seyfarth Shaw L.L.P.

The report, "Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report: 2006 Edition," analyzes 209 class action rulings on a circuit-by-circuit and state-by-state basis over the past 12 months.

The report includes chapters on major class action settlements and rulings in cases arising under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Equal Opportunity Commission, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and state court employment law, wage-and-hour and breach-of-contract cases.

Free copies of the 153-page report on CD-ROM can be obtained by sending contact information to seyfarthshaw@seyfarth.com.