2018 US Code
Title 29 - Labor
Chapter 9 - Portal-to-Portal Pay
Sec. 257 - Pending collective and representative actions
| 29 U.S.C. § 257 (2018) |
| §257. Pending collective and representative actions |
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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. |
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(May 14, 1947, ch. 52, §8, 61 Stat. 88.) |
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REFERENCES IN TEXT
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, referred to in text, is act June 25, 1938, ch. 676, 52 Stat. 1060, as amended, which is classified generally to chapter 8 (§201 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 201 of this title and Tables. |
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| Title 29 - LABOR CHAPTER 9 - PORTAL-TO-PORTAL PAY Sec. 257 - Pending collective and representative actions |
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| 52 Stat. 1060 61 Stat. 88 |
