Environmental Enforcement Defense
- Counsel Brooks Brothers on various wage and hour issues, including identifying compliance issues and enhancing their wage and hour and leave management policies.
- Represented an electric utility company in defense of claims under California’s Private Attorneys General Act relating to claims of wage and hour violations by an aggrieved employee.
- Litigated collective action under the FLSA challenging the professional exemption; managed to reduce size of class to one and successfully challenged plaintiff’s legal fee application.
- Represent a global leader in speech and search technology services in a variety of employment matters in the U.S., including the defense wage and hour claims brought by a current employee.
- Represented a provider of home care services in a wage and hour class action filed on behalf of a visiting homecare nurse and all similarly situated employees for failure to pay all overtime, expenses, and for rest periods and meal breaks. After providing plaintiff’s counsel with draft of motion to compel arbitration, the plaintiff dismissed all class claims and refiled a complaint asserting Private Attorneys General Act only claims.
- Successfully moved to dismiss statutory wage/hour claims and common law employment claims against defendant employer and individual owner, based on arbitration provision in employment agreement.
- Successfully moved to dismiss and transfer statutory wage/hour claims and common law employment claims against defendant employer and individual owner, based on choice-of-law and choice-of-venue provisions in employment agreement, based on novel theory regarding application of provisions to create “special contract” under the Massachusetts Wage Act.
Case Study
Mintz represented a client alleged to be responsible for the contamination of a public water supply. Mintz attorneys led an investigation of the state’s theory, including working with a leading hydrogeologist and locating the client's former employees. The state ultimately abandoned its claims.
Case Study
Mintz represented a client and its former employees amid a lengthy state attorney general’s investigation following accusations of criminal violations of the state’s Superfund law. Mintz led a team of environmental lawyers and experts, and the allegations were settled in a civil consent decree.