The 2011 U.S. Supreme Court case known as Wal-Mart Stores v. Dukes has in many ways made it harder for plaintiffs to bring successful workplace-discrimination class-action suits.
But that hasn’t meant that the plaintiffs’ bar has stopped filing employment-related suits altogether.
To the contrary — plaintiffs have merely switched tactics, according to employment lawyers. For starters, they’re filing more wage-and-hour litigation, accusing employers of shortchanging employees by misclassifying...
