Employers and their general counsel saw good news and bad in workplace class action legal trends in 2018, according to a new report from Seyfarth Shaw. The good news: After reaching an all-time high of $2.7 billion in 2017, the value of top workplace class action settlements decreased by more than 50 percent in 2018, sinking to a five-year low of $1.3 billion.
The bad news for employers is for the first time in the report’s 15-year history, plaintiffs posted a record-high certification success rate in 2018 of 79 percent in wage-and-hour litigation, which is the largest category of workplace lawsuits.
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