Wage Law Protects Workers Not Yet Part of Collective Actions (2)

A former Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. worker can sue the company for allegedly refusing to hire him at a subsidiary because the company was aware of his plan to join a wage-and-hour collective action against it, the Third Circuit ruled.

The Fair Labor Standards Act’s anti-retaliation provision covers employees who will soon join or are anticipated to join a collective action, the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Wednesday.

The decision revives former Cabot employee Matthew Uronis’ lawsuit, which he filed against the company and subsidiary GasSearch Drilling Services Corp. when he wasn’t hired after allegedly ...