March 28, 2024
A California federal judge denied a property preservation company's bid for a pretrial win against a worker who said he was misclassified as an independent contractor, saying there is a credible dispute over whether the company had enough control over his work to be considered his employer.
March 22, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for a California federal court's final approval of an $18 million settlement in an age discrimination class action against HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in the state.
January 22, 2024
An exception to California's employee classification test does not apply to part of a group of workers for a property preservation company, a California federal judge found, ruling that the workers should be considered employees and sending the decade-long case to a jury to determine the amount of wages owed.
July 07, 2023
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for oral arguments at the Ninth Circuit in a proposed wage and hour class action against Converse. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
July 30, 2018
A class of vendors for Field Asset Services on Friday asked a California federal judge to award more than $8 million in attorneys' fees for work on a wage lawsuit against the property servicing company, saying the amount is fair considering the complexity of the case.
January 05, 2018
In the wake of a jury's $2 million wage verdict, an attorney for Field Asset Services told a California federal judge Friday that the property servicing company acted in good faith when it paid workers as independent contractors, laying out FAS' defense in a follow-on bench trial over whether its pay practices violated unfair competition laws.
July 18, 2017
A California federal jury Monday awarded 11 Field Asset Services workers more than $2 million in total damages in the first of multiple class action trials that will determine how much the property servicing company must pay 200 workers for misclassifying them as independent contractors.
July 06, 2017
Two workers for property servicer Field Asset Services took the stand Thursday in a California federal class action trial over damages for shorting their pay by misclassifying them as contractors and for wrongly refusing reimbursements, testifying FAS threatened to cut work assignments if they didn't work seven days a week.
March 20, 2017
A California federal judge granted a quick win Friday to a class of Field Asset Services Inc. vendors who say they are really employees and the company has misclassified them, a ruling that also included a rejection of the firm's request to decertify the class.