Nakahata v. New York-Presbyterian Healthcare Sys., Inc., No. 11-0734 (2d Cir. July 11, 2013); Dejesus v. HF Management Services, LLC, No. 12-4565, 2013 WL 3970049 (2d Cir. Aug. 5, 2013): In a continuing trend in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, plaintiffs alleging claims for unpaid overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and New York Labor Law (NYLL) must provide sufficient factual detail as to their claims to survive Twombly/Iqbal challenges. The Second Circuit first set forth this pleading standard in Lundy v. Catholic Health Sys. of Long Island, 711 F.3d 106 (2d Cir. 2013), in March 2013. In Lundy, the Second Circuit held that, in order to survive a motion to dismiss, a plaintiff must, at a minimum, sufficiently allege 40 hours of work in a given workweek as well as some uncompensated time in excess of the 40 hours. The Second Circuit declined to set any approximation of the total number of uncompensated hours in a given workweek a necessity in all cases, but noted that an approximation may help bring a plaintiff’s claim closer to plausibility. Otherwise, a plaintiff’s allegations “supply nothing but low-octane fuel for speculation, not the plausible claim that is required” under Twombly/Iqbal.
The Second Circuit has reiterated the specificity requirement in Nakahata and Dejesus. In both cases, the plaintiffs’ claims were dismissed for failure to plead a plausible FLSA overtime claim...
