Minor League Players Challenge Baseball’s Labor Standards in Landmark Class Action Suit

On February 7, 2014 — A class action suit is brought to federal court by former minor league players, who allege the Major League Baseball and all 30 of its teams have violated the Fair Labor Standards Act and other state wage laws by not paying the players performing in the minor leagues overtime and minimum wage. The case filed as Senne v. the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball, which was initially scheduled to be heard in heard in February of 2017, will be postponed indefinitely until U.S. district court Joseph C. Spero decides the question of class certification.

 

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