On November 9, 2018, the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut ruled that Defendant Computer Sciences Corporation in the matter of Strauch v. Computer Sciences Corp., No. 14-956 (D. Ct.), had to pay its misclassified professional and associate professional systems administrators who opted into the case pursuant to the standard time-and-a-half method for calculating unpaid overtime, rather than the half-time “fluctuating workweek” standard sought by CSC. This decision effectively results in these systems administrators being entitled to three times as much as they would have been entitled to under the fluctuating workweek methodology. In addition, the court ruled that systems administrators who opted into the case were entitled to liquidated damages equal to their claims for unpaid overtime under federal law.
Feinberg, Jackson, Worthman & Wasow, alongside co-counsel at Outten & Golden and Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann, & Bernstein, had previously succeeded at a trial on the merits of the misclassification issue in December 2017, with damages to be determined at a later date. Final damages in the case are still left to be resolved in light of the court’s latest order, in particular the appropriate inferences to be made where CSC produced incomplete records.
Press coverage of the November 9 order is here. For more information on the December 2017 CSC trial, click here.
