October 31, 2022
Target urged a Minnesota federal court to permit a mid-lawsuit review of a decision to certify a collective of team leaders pursuing wage claims, arguing that the Eighth Circuit would eventually need to determine whether to definitively embrace or reject the two-step certification process.
October 17, 2022
Target's argument that a Minnesota federal court erred in using a two-step process to grant collective certification in an overtime suit aims at "scuttling" well-settled law, a group of workers said, arguing the company shouldn't be allowed to challenge the certification.
August 25, 2022
A Minnesota federal judge backed a magistrate judge's decision to conditionally certify a collective of Target employees pursuing unpaid wage claims, ruling that collective suits were not class actions that fall outside magistrate judges' authority.
March 29, 2022
A magistrate judge said a group of Target workers can move forward as a collective in their suit filed in Minnesota federal court, claiming the department store chain misclassified team leaders as overtime exempt and caused them to lose out on time-and-a-half pay.
February 02, 2022
Target can't escape claims it misclassified a former employee as overtime-exempt, a Minnesota federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying the retailer has not demonstrated that the worker's primary duties were managerial.