Restaurant Group Lands Early Chance at Review of Wage Collective

A Nebraska-based restaurant group can ask an appeals court to provide early clarity on the proper procedure for workers to pursue wage-and-hour claims as a collective.

Workers who allege Flagship Restaurant Group LLC’s tip policies run afoul of the Fair Labor Standards Act secured conditional certification for their collective last month from Judge Joseph F. Bataillon of the US District Court for the District of Nebraska. But several circuits have adopted different approaches to collective status in recent years, so it makes sense to give the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit a chance to weigh in now, ...