Time To Look Beyond Overtime A Survey Of Employment Class Actions In Canada
Mondaq Business Briefing › Canada Law Articles in English (2011)
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Time To Look Beyond Overtime A Survey Of Employment Class Actions In Canada
When the first overtime class actions broke onto the Canadian legal scene in 2007, observers wondered whether this signalled a move toward the class action culture to which U.S. employers have grown accustomed. With the expanded right to overtime under the new federal Fair Labour Standards Act 1(FLSA) — known as the "FairPay Rules" — adopted in 2004, the incidence of overtime class actions has mushroomed in the U.S. To date, attempts to follow this trend in Canada have been met with a lukewarm reaction from th...
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