Federal Judge Agrees To Modify Subclasses In Tipped Workers' Pay Suit

Mealey's (October 5, 2020, 1:12 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A federal judge in Illinois on Oct. 1 partially granted a decertification motion by a restaurant and its managers and modified three subclasses in a collective and class wage-and-hour complaint, but declined to completely decertify one of the subclasses as the defendants had requested, writing that a common question still predominates (Jessica Berger, et al. v. Howard Cortes, et al., No. 14-8543, N.D. Ill., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 182095)....