Employers have faced more than 5,000 COVID-19-related lawsuits hundreds were brought as putative class or collective actions. New lawsuits continue to be filed every day. September 2022 saw the highest number yet of new complaints challenging employer vaccine mandates.
COVID-19-related class action filings persist, largely in the form of wage and hour claims. Pandemic-induced layoffs have prompted lawsuits under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification WARN Act.
In our latest issue of the Class Action Trends Report, Jackson Lewis attorneys look at the current state of COVID-19-related litigation at this late stage of the global pandemic. .
In this issue of the Class Action Trends Report, Jackson Lewis attorneys discuss recent developments in arbitration and their impact on employment class actions. These include the.
The Delta and Omicron variants, the volatile politics of vaccines and masks and testing, serious worker shortages, and the patchwork of ever-changing laws and regulations have created an environment fraught with risk of classwide liability.