section 255(b) of this title29 U.S.C. 201The statute of limitations prescribed in shall also be applicable (in the case of a collective or representative action commenced prior to under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended [ et seq.]) to an individual claimant who has not been specifically named as a party plaintiff to the action prior to the expiration of one hundred and twenty days after . In the application of such statute of limitations such action shall be considered to have been commenced as to him when, and only when, his written consent to become a party plaintiff to the action is filed in the court in which the action was brought.
May 14, 1947, ch. 52, § 8 61 Stat. 88 (, .)
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act June 25, 1938, ch. 676 52 Stat. 1060 section 201 of this titleThe Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, referred to in text, is , , as amended, which is classified generally to chapter 8 (§ 201 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see and Tables.