Firm's Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report Noted in The Financial Times

The June 9 issue of the Financial Times includes an article ("US workers lose faith in the dogma that overwork is good for the soul") that notes employers are facing a growing number of lawsuits over pay and hours and references the 2006 report: "From Wal-Mart to Wall Street, disgruntled US workers are driving a new wave of mass employment lawsuits that challenge the most basic premise of the American work ethic: that overwork is good for the soul, the company and, ultimately, the country. Increasingly, US workers are banding together to demand payment for all the hours they work, including unpaid overtime, work done during meals and time spent walking around on the job. Collective lawsuits involving wages and hours are growing "exponentially", according to a recent study by the law firm Seyfarth Shaw, which found that mass litigation over pay and working hours outnumbered any other kind of workplace class action last year, including gender and other job discrimination lawsuits."