Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. Cooper

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• noting certification of the collective would significantly reduce the costs of litigation to members of the collective
• finding plaintiffs are similarly situated where plaintiffs indicated there was an unwritten practice of allowing off-the- clock work and that the written prohibitions were consistently violated and generally impacted the members of the class in a similar manner
• finding plaintiffs are similarly situated where plaintiffs indicated there was an unwritten practice of allowing off-the- clock work and that the written prohibitions were consistently violated and generally impacted the members of the class in a similar manner
• \District courts within...the Fourth Circuit...have uniformly employed a two-step inquiry in deciding whether to certify a collective action under the FLSA....\
• “Insubstantial differences in job duties, hours worked and wages due that do not materially affect whether a group of employees may be properly classified are not significant to the ‘similarly situated’ determination.”

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