Court Decertifies FLSA Collective Action, Citing Risk of Mini-Trials for Bank Workers

A federal district court in Pennsylvania March 27 decertified a collective action for overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act, finding that “fairness and procedural considerations” outweighed the possible advantages of handling the claims of 843 plaintiffs in a collective action (Martin v. Citizens Fin. Grp. Inc., E.D. Pa., 2:10-cv-00260-MSG, 3/27/13)

Granting Citizens Financial Group Inc.'s motion to decertify a class of bank employees that was conditionally approved in late 2010, Judge Mitchell S. Goldberg of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said that the plaintiffs—tellers and other employees working at branches ...