Labor and employment class actions accounted for 43.4% of legal departments' class action matters in 2023, an increase of nearly 10 percentage points from a year earlier, the newly released Carlton Fields Class Action Survey found.
April 09, 2024 at 09:50 AM
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Labor and employment class actions spiked in 2023, according to a new study that projected such cases will become an even bigger headache for legal departments in 2024.
The Carlton Fields Class Action Survey said the increase in L&E class actions was occurring as “employee activism surges.” Other major contributors were tension over hybrid work policies, layoffs, growing discrimination claims, and unionizing attempts reaching a 40-year high.
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