Book contents
- The Virtual Workplace
- The Virtual Workplace
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Who Is an Employee?
- 3 Pleading Standards and the Technology Sector
- 4 Aggregating Claims
- 5 Collective Bargaining Agreements and Unions in the Modern Economy
- 6 Harassment and the Virtual Workplace
- 7 A Few Final Thoughts
- Appendix Selected Portions of Plaintiff’s Complaint in Bradshaw v. Uber Technologies
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - Aggregating Claims
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 June 2021
- The Virtual Workplace
- The Virtual Workplace
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Who Is an Employee?
- 3 Pleading Standards and the Technology Sector
- 4 Aggregating Claims
- 5 Collective Bargaining Agreements and Unions in the Modern Economy
- 6 Harassment and the Virtual Workplace
- 7 A Few Final Thoughts
- Appendix Selected Portions of Plaintiff’s Complaint in Bradshaw v. Uber Technologies
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter sets forth the guidelines for systemic litigation. This chapter examines the Supreme Court’s decision Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, explaining how the Court has redefined the standard for commonality. Next, this chapter examines the Fair Labor Standards Act – which creates the federal requirements for wage/hour claims. This chapter then examines the federal district court decision in O’Connor v. Uber, which permitted the aggregation of a class on the worker classification issue. This chapter further examines the potential harm of the O’Connor analysis and the need for more clarity in the technology sector. This chapter proposes a framework for analyzing whether class action claims should be permitted to proceed in technology-based cases. Finally, this chapter explores how Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(c)(4) – issue class certification – can impact the analysis of class action cases.
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- The Virtual WorkplacePublic Health, Efficiency, and Opportunity, pp. 78 - 113Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021