{"id":8928,"date":"2025-12-04T20:51:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/seventh-circuit-rejects-lenient-two-step-lusardi-standard-for-flsa-adea-collective-action-notice-law-com\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T20:51:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:51:17","slug":"seventh-circuit-rejects-lenient-two-step-lusardi-standard-for-flsa-adea-collective-action-notice-law-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/seventh-circuit-rejects-lenient-two-step-lusardi-standard-for-flsa-adea-collective-action-notice-law-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Seventh Circuit Rejects Lenient Two-Step &#8216;Lusardi&#8217; Standard for FLSA\/ADEA Collective Action Notice| Law.com"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently issued a significant ruling for employers facing Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) collective actions. In <i>Richards v. Eli Lilly &amp; Company<\/i>, the court vacated and remanded a lower court&#8217;s decision to issue notice to nonparties in a collective action, establishing a new, uniform standard for determining when court-authorized notice may be sent to potential plaintiffs. This decision directly impacts the initial stage of collective actions\u2014the process of determining which employees are &#8220;similarly situated&#8221; and should receive official notice of the lawsuit. For employers, this is a welcome shift away from the more plaintiff-friendly standard that was set forth in <i>Lusardi v. Xerox<\/i>, 99 F.R.D. 89 (D.N.J. 1983).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently issued a significant ruling for employers facing Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) collective actions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[715,610,3088,7110,6724,7107,7109,877,697,1368,3655,7108],"class_list":["post-8928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-action","tag-circuit","tag-collective","tag-flsaadea","tag-law-com","tag-lenient","tag-lusardi","tag-notice","tag-rejects","tag-seventh","tag-standard","tag-twostep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}