Wage and Hour Law and Litigation

Through simulation exercises, this course examines present trends in wage-and-hour litigation, a significant subject area in current labor and employment law. The course examines the history of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and also treats wage-and-hour law in the states, both statutory and common law. Because multi-plaintiff litigation under the FLSA proceeds on a collective, or opt-in, basis, the course will examine the differences between opt-in and Rule 23 opt-out class actions, including increasingly successful efforts to use the two approaches simultaneously in wage-and-hour claims. There are no prerequisites for this course.