4th Circuit: Collective Action Doesn’t Require Proposed Settlement Notification

Mealey's (July 18, 2019, 11:04 AM EDT) -- RICHMOND, Va. — A collective action settlement in a Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) lawsuit, unlike a class action, does not require potential claimants to be notified about the proposed settlement, a Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled in a July 16 unpublished opinion, rejecting a collective action member’s appeal of a settlement between drivers and Uber Technologies Inc. and Rasier LLC (Phillip David Haskett v. Uber Technologies, Inc., et al., No. 19-1116, 4th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 21003)....