About Jesse Young
I've spent my entire career helping clients understand whether proper compensation was paid by an employer, and fighting to protect my client's rights. Jesse Young is a Senior Shareholder at Sommers Schwartz, PC. He represents clients in serious employment disputes, including but not limited to issues of severance negotiations, discrimination, retaliation, whistleblowing activity, employment contracts, terminations, and compliance. His clients include individuals and businesses. As a co-founder of the firm's national wage-and-hour practice, Jesse has appeared in hundreds of wage-and-hour lawsuits and hundreds more arbitrations arising under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and similar state laws. In this regard, he represents clients nationwide dealing with the payment of minimum wages and/or overtime, classification of employees, "off the clock" work, meal breaks, tip pooling, donning and doffing of protective work equipment, recordkeeping, and other issues peculiar to a wide variety of industries. He is a Chapter Editor of the ABA's leading treatise on the FLSA, entitled "The Fair Labor Standards Act," and is a recurring speaker on wage-and-hour topics at The Institute of Continuing Legal Education (Michigan) and other national legal conferences.
Notable case results
Collective action settlement on behalf of exotic dancers working at Déjà Vu gentlemen's clubs in an action brought in Michigan under the Fair Labor Standards Act for failure to pay minim
Class action settlement for 2,574 hourly managers who alleged Lowe's Home Centers withheld overtime pay for "off-the-clock" work.
In nationwide wage and hour collective action involving call center employees who were not paid for their pre-shift computer login and boot-up time.
Collective action settlement on behalf of exotic dancers working at "gentleman's clubs" that misclassified them as independent contractors, forced them to pay "rent," and failed to pay m
Class settlement on behalf of "advice nurses" who were not properly paid wages and overtime for off-the-clock work in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
