Could Fair Credit Reporting Act class actions be a new form of wage and hour lawsuits? That’s what Seyfarth Shaw partner Pamela Devata and senior counsel Paul Kehoe are suggesting on the Workplace Class Action Blog. They say much like the early days of wage and hour litigation, plaintiffs lawyers are becoming more sophisticated “in building class actions with limited personal recovery but significant attorney fees.”
They cite the class action involving Swift Transportation Co. of Arizona, which was filed on behalf of applicants who applied for truck-driving positions and were the subject of a consumer report obtained by the company for employment purposes.
