Huang v. Gateway Hotel Holdings

MEMORANDUM AND OPINION

E. RICHARD WEBBER, District Judge.

This matter comes before the Court on Plaintiffs’ Motion for Conditional Certification of Class [doc. #22] and Defendant’s Motion to Strike or Change Certain Portions of Plaintiffs’ Proposed Notice [doe. #28].

I. BACKGROUND AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Plaintiff Huang was a non-union hourly employee of Gateway Hotel Holdings (“Defendant”) at the Millennium Hotel, St. Louis, where he worked for approximately twenty-five (25) years as a server. In January, 2006, Defendant announced a policy requiring nonunion employees to take a one-half hour…