Minor League Baseball Responds to Minor League Players’ Wage and Hour Lawsuit
By Cari A. Cohorn
The class action wage and hour lawsuit initiated in February 2014 against the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball d/b/a Major League Baseball (“MLB”), Bud Selig, the Kansas City Royals, the Miami Marlins and San Francisco Baseball Associates LLC has now expanded to include claims made by 32 current and former minor league players against every team in the league.
The upshot of the players’ complaint is that MLB and its member teams have allegedly violated