Protests 282813-G of Macksoud Import Co.

How courts have described this case

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• directing that the consent form “clearly indicate that opt-in plaintiffs[] have the right to select their own counsel”
• granting conditional certification to collective of foremen and other laborers who worked at various sites but were subject to a company-wide policy of failing to pay overtime wages
• finding reminder notice appropriate “[g]iven that notice under the FLSA is intended to inform as many potential plaintiffs as possible of the collective action and their right to opt-in”
• finding “a reasonable inference that plaintiffs’ experiences reflected a company-wide policy” where supported by plaintiffs’ allegations that they received “purely ‘straight time’ pay in the same distinctive manner . . . no matter where they worked or who supervised them”
• Reminder notices further the FLSA’s express purpose to “inform as many potential plaintiffs as possible of the collective action and their right to opt-in.”
• “The accuracy of the parties’ competing views will be tested through discovery and may be raised before the Court on a motion to decertify the class after the close of discovery.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).