Class Actions

Strength in Numbers: When Unlawful Pay Practices Affect An Entire Group of Employees or Contractors, Class Actions Can Get Everyone Paid

One individual employee's wage claim is often not taken seriously; however, if similar claims are aggregated over dozens, hundreds, or thousands of company employees, employers tend to pay attention. A claim over a few thousand dollars is a cost of doing business that is easily dismissed by an employer, but a claim on behalf of an entire class of employees can have six, seven, or eight-figure implications for an employer.

In order to bring a class action, you will need to show that the class's claims are so numerous that they make individual actions impractical, that your claims are typical of the claims of the class as the class representative, that there are common issues of facts and law, and that you will adequately represent the interests of the class.

Employers often try to get around class actions with boilerplate, take-it-or-leave it agreements that you sign in onboarding, but these agreements are often unenforceable.

Why Wage and Hour Class Action Claims Matter

For workers in Northern New Jersey, Nashville, and across New Jersey and Tennessee, these are not small issues. Being paid incorrectly affects your income, your stability, and your ability to plan ahead. You have earned your pay. Your employer needs to live up to its legal obligations.

When the numbers on your paycheck do not add up, the situation requires a closer look. Our job is to review the facts, explain what the law requires, and outline a path based on decades of employment litigation and real insight into how employers handle overtime disputes.

The Workers We Help in Wage and Hour Class Actions

We represent employees in New Jersey and Tennessee who:

• Were misclassified as overtime exempt
• Were misclassified as independent contractors
• Were repeatedly and systemically expected to work before or after their shift without recording the time
• Were repeatedly and systemically required to work during unpaid breaks
• Were paid on a flat rate regardless
• Experienced automatic break deductions
• Experienced systemic rounding of time to shortchange their pay
• Were paid with incorrect regular rates or overtime rates

How Class Actions Help Create Real Change

Wage and hour violations often go unnoticed because workers assume the loss is too small to challenge: a few minutes off the clock here, a missed overtime payment there. But when those same practices affect dozens or hundreds of employees, they reveal a company-wide problem. 

At Bodzy Law, we focus on identifying patterns in employer behavior and connecting the facts across multiple employees. These cases not only recover the pay that was lost, but also help push companies to change the practices that caused it. When workers take action together, it does not just resolve one claim; it reshapes the standard for everyone who follows.

Do Not Let Your Employer Decide What Your Time Is Worth

If your employer systemically violates the laws on how you are paid, the situation needs a real review. We will assess the facts, explain how wage and hour  laws apply, and outline the options available. A free no-obligation thirty-minute consultation will give you a clear understanding of where you stand and what can be done next.