Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. White and Son Enterprises, a Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a statute of limitations defense was waived when the defendant did not raise it until three days before trial
• concluding that unofficial complaints by women regarding fact that they did not receive a raise as did men at factory “constituted an assertion of rights protected under the [FLSA]”
• holding, without discussion of the verbal/ written distinction, that plaintiffs’ oral complaints were protected activity
• stating that unofficial complaints to an employer “constitute an assertion of rights protected under the statute”
• finding that the defendant could properly draw the court’s attention to comparators paid the same or less than the plaintiff in further analysis of the plaintiffs claim
• noting that the anti-retaliation provision of the FLSA is “giv[en] a broad construction”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).