Labor/Employment,
Class Action
Jun. 30, 2025
The preclusive effect of class-action releases on future wage and hour claims
A legitimate class-action claim for unreimbursed uniform expenses may be barred before it begins -- not on the merits, but due to overly broad release language in a prior, unrelated class-action settlement -- underscoring the critical importance of carefully crafting settlement terms and understanding the limits of the "identical factual predicate" doctrine.
Allison Eckstrom
Neutral
Signature Resolution
Employment and wage and hour litigation
Allison Eckstrom is a neutral with Signature Resolution with more than two decades of experience in employment and wage and hour litigation. She has represented clients across the retail, financial services, technology, transportation, aerospace, pharmaceuticals, property management, and hospitality industries and has litigated more than 250 class and representative actions in federal and state courts.
Consider the following hypothetical: A worker files a wage and hour class-action claim against her employer, alleging that the company failed to reimburse its employees for uniform expenses. Under Labor Code Section 2802, employers are required to indemnify $95
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