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Data-Driven Strategy Reduces Wage and Hour Liability

A leading staffing company faced significant financial and reputational risk from complex, multijurisdictional wage and hour lawsuits. Engaged through outside counsel, FTI Consulting provided privileged consulting and expert witness support to reconcile complex data, quantify exposure and deliver data-driven litigation support to guide strategy and achieve favorable settlements.

Our Impact:

FTI Consulting’s defensible, data-driven analyses provided a single source of truth assessing damages across all 50 U.S. states that directly informed legal strategy and strengthened the company’s settlement position.
The comprehensive rebuttal report developed by FTI Consulting dismantled the plaintiffs’ damages models, identified material errors and inflated assumptions, and significantly reduced claimed exposure.
Our findings enabled substantially reduced settlements with the U.S. Department of Labor, accelerated resolution with federal and state agencies, and helped bring the matter to a close.

Our Role:

FTI Consulting reconciled unstructured hiring materials, payroll data and large-scale system backups containing more than one billion records to establish a reliable, defensible foundation for analysis.
Our experts partnered with legal and business stakeholders to remediate incomplete and inconsistent data, creating an accurate, enterprise-wide view of compensation practices to support downstream expert analyses.
The team performed a comprehensive wage and hour exposure assessment, aligning actual pay practices with statutory requirements and delivering data-driven insights to inform settlement strategy, depositions and litigation planning.
FTI Consulting acted as a separately retained expert witness, rebutting the plaintiffs’ damages models through a detailed expert report that identified methodological flaws, quantified overstatements and strengthened deposition and negotiation strategy.