Companies can expect aggressive lawsuits from employees in 2016 after the past year saw workplace legal actions rise for the sixth straight year to a record high, according to an annual report from Seyfarth Shaw.
“The No. 1 pressure point will be wage-and-hour lawsuits,” says Seyfarth partner Gerald Maatman Jr., who authored the firm’s 12th annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report. The report says the value of wage-and-hour settlements doubled in 2015 after two years of declines.
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