Other public interest cases include unpaid
overtime class actions against Canadian banks and other employers and minimum wage class actions on behalf of junior hockey players.
It is involved with Supreme Court of Canada cases defining the content and scope of the guarantee of freedom of association, and in
unpaid overtime class action lawsuits against The Bank of Nova Scotia and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.
But that doesn't mean the Court of Appeal has closed the door on these kinds
of overtime class actions, says Laura Fric, a litigation partner with Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP.
FLSA Overtime Class Actions and Liquidated Damages, Orange County Lawyer Magazine, Volume 45, No. 11 (November 2003)
«The Upside for Employers in
Recent Overtime Class - Action Decisions» In - House Counsel Magazine (December 2012)
Discovery in
Overtime Class Actions Often is Prevented Before Certification, Los Angeles Daily Journal, (July 25, 2002)
Class actions and shareholders» rights litigation, including securities class actions,
overtime class actions, investor loss class actions, oppression proceedings and derivative actions.
«The Court was clear that «misclassification» overtime claims are not all doomed to fail as a class action, just as «off - the - clock»
overtime class actions are not guaranteed to be certified.»
Employers are most vulnerable to
an overtime class action when the hours of overtime - eligible employees are not properly monitored, recorded, enforced or compensated.
The appeal was heard on November 30 and December 1 and 2, 2011, at the same time as the appeal in the Scotiabank unpaid
overtime class action.
Another overtime class action lawsuit has been filed in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice against BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc., alleging that BMO NBI has wrongfully misclassified certain of its employees as exempt from overtime pay resulting in widespread violations of the Employment Standards Act hours of work and overtime rules.
And the real eye - popper is
the overtime class action filed by, yes, a group of highly - paid «professionals» (senior analysts, investment bankers and the like) against CIBC World Markets.