C.J. Eaton Email & Phone Number

C.J. is Senior Counsel in the Labor & Employment Department in Seyfarth Shaw’s Boston office. Her practice focuses on wage and hour matters, including federal and state wage and hour audits, investigations by federal and state agencies, and the defense of collective, class and hybrid actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act and state laws in federal and state courts. She is the principal author and editor-in-chief of Seyfarth’s publication Massachusetts Peculiarities: An Employer’s Guide to Wage & Hour Law in the Bay State.C.J. has defended wage payment and tipping class actions under state law. She has also handled a variety of federal class and collective actions involving exempt status and salary basis test. In these actions, she has had success both in limiting class size and in defeating class certification. C.J. also provides advice to clients concerning wage and hour law compliance and assists clients in litigation avoidance by conducting audits and assisting in the implementation of new practices focused on compliance with state and federal wage and hour requirements. She also represents clients for purposes of wage and hour investigations conducted by the federal Department of Labor and wage complaints filed with the Massachusetts’ Office of the Attorney General. C.J. has wage and hour litigation and counseling experience in a number of different industries, including hospitality, technology and biosciences, professional staffing, financial services, retail, transportation and travel, professional services, health care, manufacturing, education, and the public sector.C.J. also has experience representing management in a wide variety of other labor and employment law matters. Her litigation experience includes the defense of discrimination claims and employment-related breach of contract, whistleblower, and tort claims. In addition, she counsels clients on employment-related matters.Specialties: Labor & Employment Law (Management)Wage & Hour Law

Listed skills include Employment Law, Litigation, Class Actions, Defense, and 3 others.