29 U.S.C. § 257 — Pending collective and representative actions

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This law extends the deadline for joining certain lawsuits started before May 14, 1947. It applies to wage claims brought as group lawsuits under the Fair Labor Standards Act. A worker had until 120 days after May 14, 1947 to formally join as a plaintiff.

This section applies section 255(b)'s statute of limitations to group wage lawsuits under the Fair Labor Standards Act that were already filed before May 14, 1947. A worker who was part of the group but not yet named as a plaintiff had until 120 days after May 14, 1947 to file written consent joining the lawsuit as a plaintiff. Once that consent is filed, the law treats the worker's case as having started on the date the consent was filed in court - not any earlier date.

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The statute of limitations prescribed in section 255(b) of this title shall also be applicable (in the case of a collective or representative action commenced prior to May 14, 1947 under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended [29 U.S.C. 201 et seq.]) to an individual claimant who has not been specifically named as a party plaintiff to the action prior to the expiration of one hundred and twenty days after May 14, 1947. In the application of such statute of limitations such action shall be considered to have been commenced as to him when, and only when, his written consent to become a party plaintiff to the action is filed in the court in which the action was brought.

Source credit: (May 14, 1947, ch. 52, § 8, 61 Stat. 88.)

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1947Enacted · Act of May 14, 1947, ch. 52 · 61 Stat. 88

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