Douglas Werman | Chicago Employment Lawyer

• American Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section | Member - Fair Labor Standards Legislation Committee
  National Employment Lawyers Association | Member
  Chicago Bar Association | Member
  National Employment Lawyers Association (Illinois chapter) | Member

• Super Lawyer | SuperLawyers | 2015
  Super Lawyer | SuperLawyers | 2014
  Super Lawyer | Super Lawyers | 2013
  Pro Bono Service Award | Federal Bar Association | 2013
  Super Lawyer | Super Lawyers | 2012
  2012 Excellence Pro Bono Service | Federal Bar Association (Chicago chapter) | 2012
  Super Lawyer | Illinois Super Lawyers | 2011
  Super Lawyer | Super Lawyers | 2011
  Pro Bono Service Award | United Way - Elgin | 2003

• $30,000,000 SETTLEMENT

  In a series of several cases, temporary staffing employees alleged that their staffing agencies maintained vacation policies that denied them the right to earn and accrue vacation time as they worked.

  As a result, the employees claimed that in violation of an Illinois law, the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act, they were not paid all of their owed vacation pay as part of their final wages. After significant litigation, these cases settled in what are believed to be among the largest employment class actions in Illinois history.

  $12,300,000 SETTLEMENT

  Inside staffing recruiters for a national healthcare company sued their employer claiming that they were misclassified as exempt from federal and state overtime laws. They claimed that because of their job duties, they were not properly considered exempt from overtime under either the executive employee or administrative employee exemptions. After winning conditional certification of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act claims on behalf of staffing recruiters employed by the company throughout the United States, the case settled for $12,300,000.

  $12,000,000 SETTLEMENT

  Employees working as “Client Associates” for a well-known national financial service sued for not being paid overtime for all the hours they worked in excess of forty hours per week. The employees alleged that their employer violated the Fair Labor Standards Act and the California, New York, Washington and Maryland state wage and hour laws related to overtime pay. Among other things, the employees alleged that they and other employees were paid overtime based on an incorrect and low regular rate of pay; that Defendants failed to properly record and account for all overtime hours worked, gave them incomplete and inaccurate work and payroll records; that with regard to persons employed in California, failed to furnish accurate wage statements and failed to provide meal and rest periods; and that with regard to New York employees, failed to pay spread of hours compensation. The case settled for $12,000,000.

• American Bar Association publication | The Fair Labor Standards Act | 2013
  Wage and Hour Class Actions | Settlement of Wage & Hour Class Actions | 2013
  Practising Law Institute | Litigating Wage and Hour Class Actions | 2013
  Association for Continuing Legal Education | Settling Wage and Hour Class Actions | 2012
  The Current Terrain In Class Actions | Class Action Litigation | 2011
  Class Actions for Employment and Wage and Hour Claims | Wage and Hour Collective and Class Actions | 2011
  Class Actions for Employment and Wage and Hour Claims | Settling Employment Class Actions | 2011
  Chicago Bar Association, Class Litigation Committee | Ins and Outs of Class Actions | 2011
  Wage and Hour Litigation | Settling Wage and Hour Class and Collective Actions | 2010
  Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education | Settling Wage and Hour Class Actions | 2010
  BNA publications, Daily Labor Report | Douglas Werman quoted in "Contingent Workers Kelly Services to Pay $11 Million to Settle Wage, Hour Suit on Behalf of Illinois Workers" | 2009
  Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education | Ins and Outs of Class Action Suits | 2008
  AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee | Arbitrating Wage and Hour Cases | 2008
  Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education | Illinois Wage and Hour Class Actions | 2008
  Chicago Lawyer | Douglas Werman quoted in Lawyers See Steady Rise in Overtime Collective Actions | 2006
  Pioneer Press | Douglas Werman quoted in article entitled Recipe for a Lawsuit regarding wage and hour litigation in the restuarant industry | 2006
  Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education | Employment Law Flash Points | 1999
  Illinois Institute Continuing Legal Education | Non-Compete Litigation in Illinois | 1998
  Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education | Employment Law Flash Points | 1998
  Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education | Employment Law Flash Points | 1997

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