Wenthold v. AT & T TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

In this interlocutory appeal (87 Ill. 2d R. 308(a)), defendant AT&T Technologies, Inc. (AT&T), challenges the circuit court’s certification of plaintiffs’ class in an action to recover past overtime payments due under the minimum wage law (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 48, par. 1004a(l)). We are asked to decide, essentially, whether: the applicability of an exemption to the overtime provisions of the minimum wage law raises individual questions of law or fact which predominate so as to preclude class treatment; and, plaintiffs are inadequate class representatives. Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 110,…