Sutherland Global Worker Gets Tentative Nod for Group Wage Case

Sutherland Global Services Inc. workers allegedly deprived of overtime can join a collective action after the company failed to convince a federal magistrate judge to abandon a common certification process.

The technology company didn’t present a compelling reason for the US District Court for the Western District of New York to join a handful of federal appellate courts in abandoning the two-step certification process for Fair Labor Standards Act collectives. But the worker who sued identified a common policy or plan that could’ve led to unpaid overtime for members of the collective only for the first two weeks after Kronos, ...