Allyn & Fortuna LLPDiana Uhimov, July 31, 2015 The Second Circuit made two business-friendly rulings on July 2, 2015 in the closely watched proposed class action cases involving interns that claimed they should have been classified as employees. The Court of Appeals struck down a trial court decision that determined two unpaid interns were employees covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act and New York Labor Law in the wage case, Glatt et al. v. Fox Searchlight Pictures Inc. It also upheld a ruling that denied certification in another unpaid intern case against the Hearst Corp. The…
Diana Uhimov, April 20, 2015. After an initial denial, a New York federal judge for the Southern District of New York granted permission last week to a group of former Gawker Media LLC interns’ to notify potential class members of a proposed action through social media, namely Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. The judge limited the approval by finding that “friending” class members on Facebook is too extreme. The interns brought the proposed collective action, Mark et al. v. Gawker Media LLC et al., in 2013 under the Fair…