Wage and Hour Compliance & Litigation

Overview

Guidance in a Shifting Legal Landscape

As the nature of work continues to evolve—think remote teams, gig models, flexible hours—so do the challenges of wage and hour compliance. Employers today face heightened risk from class and collective actions, overlapping state and federal laws, and enforcement trends targeting worker classification, off-the-clock work, and overtime eligibility.

Constangy’s Wage & Hour team helps businesses meet these challenges head-on. We bring deep knowledge of federal and state laws, backed by national litigation experience and practical compliance counsel. From large-scale audits to high-stakes defense, our team delivers the insight and strategy needed to reduce exposure and strengthen your pay practices in real time.

What Sets Us Apart

We don’t just follow wage and hour law—we help shape it. One of our team leaders is the Editor-in-Chief of the ABA’s definitive treatise on the Fair Labor Standards Act. Our attorneys include former DOL officials and state agency counsel who understand how the rules work—and how to apply them across jurisdictions.

What We Do

Defend employers in federal and state wage and hour class and collective actions
Counsel on FLSA compliance, minimum wage and tip credit, overtime rules, and exemption classifications
Audit pay practices and independent contractor classifications
Advise on state-specific wage laws, recordkeeping, and remote work policies
Train HR teams and leadership on compliance and risk mitigation

Why Choose Us

Wage and hour compliance affects every corner of your business. With Constangy, you get focused legal guidance, practical tools, and responsive defense from one of the nation’s most respected wage and hour teams. We help you protect your workforce—and your bottom line.

Class & Collective Action Defense
We represent employers in class and collective actions involving pay practices, misclassification, and overtime.
Modern Compliance Counseling
We advise on wage and hour risks tied to remote work, hybrid schedules, and evolving job structures.
Custom Audits & Training
We help companies spot and solve compliance issues early, through internal audits and targeted training programs.
Multi-State Compliance Support
We help employers navigate the complexities of federal and state laws to maintain compliance and reduce exposure nationwide.

Experience

Matters

Our experience is not just limited to the trial court level. Our attorneys have handled appeals of both wage and hour and other types of employment claims in both federal and state courts of appeals, including various stages of the appellate process.

In addition, the firm’s creative approaches in working with federal and state regulatory agencies to assure the government of prospective compliance with wage and hour requirements has helped many clients avoid potentially major liabilities.

We have also:

Defeated class certification effort in a statewide wage and hour case involving allegations of off-clock work by a chain retailer, and settled remaining claims of named plaintiffs on favorable terms.
Successfully used Rule 68 Offers of Judgment to pick off named plaintiffs and defeat collective action efforts
Convinced plaintiff's counsel to dismiss an FLSA collective action with prejudice after refuting liability with employer's payroll records.
Prevailed in obtaining a court order compelling arbitration of FLSA collective action, and then settled the claim of the named plaintiff and obtained dismissal of a collective action.
Disposed of class action wage and hour claims in arbitration proceedings by satisfying the single-named plaintiff's claim and moving for dismissal of cases.
Compelled single claimant arbitration where arbitration agreements were silent as to availability of class and collective procedures.
Crafted and obtained confidential court approval of claims-made reversionary class action settlement where only filing claimants shared in settlement and all funds designated for non-claimant class members reverted to defendant.