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Allan S. Rubin is a principal in the Detroit, Michigan, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. He is a nationally renowned trial and appellate attorney whose nationwide practice focuses on wage and hour, class action, and employment litigation.

Allan currently serves as lead counsel on multiple class action matters, including class actions involving the retail and hospitality, medical, and call center industries involving wage and hour issues, RICO, and advertising issues. Allan regularly represents medical providers in employment, advertising, and litigation matters. In addition, Allan is employment counsel to a number of businesses in the retail, bar, and entertainment industries, and has previously served as both an independent and non-independent director of a publicly traded company involved in the bar and nightclub industry.

Allan has tried a significant number of cases throughout the United States and has frequently argued appellate matters before state and federal appellate courts. During the course of Allan's career, he has handled a wide variety of matters, including the defense of nationwide and state class actions, employment, and labor matters, including FLSA and state wage and hour claims, sexual harassment claims, complex trade secrets cases, defamation actions, commercial litigation, white collar criminal defense, corporate internal investigations, and constitutional law matters, amongst others.

Michigan employers soon will face a significantly higher minimum wage and more onerous employee sick leave obligations after the Michigan Supreme Court invalidated the Michigan legislature’s amendments related to two voter ballot initiatives. Mothering Justice v. Attorney General and State of Michigan, No. 165325 (July 31, 2024).

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In 2018, the Michigan legislature adopted, and then within the same legislative session amended, two voter-approved ballot initiatives, one to significantly raised Michigan’s minimum wage and the other to expand employer obligations to provide paid sick leave. In 2022, the Michigan Court of Claims held that the legislature’s actions violated the Michigan Constitution and ordered

The Michigan legislature was within its authority to amend two ballot initiatives in 2018, one to significantly raise the minimum wage and the other to greatly expand the availability of paid sick leave to employees, the Michigan Court of Appeals has held. Mothering Justice v. Attorney General, 2023 Mich. App. LEXIS 625 (Mich. Ct.

On July 19, 2022, the Michigan Court of Claims held that, in 2018, the state legislature violated the Michigan Constitution when it enacted, and within the same legislative session amended, two ballot initiatives, one to raise the minimum wage and the other to require employers to provide paid sick leave. Now, citing public concerns over

Citing legislative “sleight of hand,” the Michigan Court of Claims has held that the Michigan legislature violated the state’s Constitution when, in 2018, it adopted and then immediately amended ballot initiatives to increase the state’s minimum wage and to require employer-paid sick leave. Mothering Justice v. Nessel, No. 21-000095-MM (July 19, 2022). Therefore, the