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    Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up, PROCEDURE—N.D. Ga.: Employee’s filing of signed fee agreement sufficient to satisfy FLSA’s ‘written consent’ requirement, (Nov 9, 2026)

    Law Firms Mentioned:Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough | Parks, Chesin & Walbert
    Organizations Mentioned:Burns and Wilcox, Ltd.

    By Ronald Miller, J.D.

    The FLSA does not specify the form of written consent that is required and courts “have generally not taken a strict approach with regard to the form of the written consent, at least with respect to named plaintiffs.”

    An employer was den ...

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