A Second Circuit panel ruled that a $57,100 arbitration award in a misclassification suit against a cleaning company must remain confidential, flipping a Connecticut federal court's decision unsealing the award and declining to dismiss the case.
A California federal judge appeared inclined to deny a former X Corp. employee's class certification bid in his suit claiming the social media platform failed to pay promised bonuses after Elon Musk took over, urging the parties to tackle whether a renewed motion is necessary.
More employers may follow in Amazon's footsteps and require a return to the office, which means employees need to relearn how to track their hours and employers should reevaluate their jurisdictional obligations, among other tips.
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A Second Circuit panel ruled that a $57,100 arbitration award in a misclassification suit against a cleaning company must remain confidential, flipping a Connecticut federal court's decision unsealing the award and declining to dismiss the case.
A California federal judge appeared inclined to deny a former X Corp. employee's class certification bid in his suit claiming the social media platform failed to pay promised bonuses after Elon Musk took over, urging the parties to tackle whether a renewed motion is necessary.
More employers may follow in Amazon's footsteps and require a return to the office, which means employees need to relearn how to track their hours and employers should reevaluate their jurisdictional obligations, among other tips.
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October 03, 2024
A new policy requiring Boston University graduate students who receive stipends to submit weekly certifications of their hours worked has led to many being paid weeks or even months late, in violation of Massachusetts wage laws, according to a proposed class action filed on Thursday.
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October 03, 2024
The fight to approve a $2.78 billion antitrust settlement over the NCAA's name, image and likeness compensation rules grew tougher this week as a new group of athletes voiced their opposition to the deal's "illusory, contradictory and overreaching" terms.
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October 03, 2024
Jones Day will have to defend its family leave policy at trial against claims from married ex-associates who say it is discriminatory and violates District of Columbia law, a D.C. federal judge said Thursday in concluding such bias allegations were a close call.
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October 03, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal judge greenlighted a class of hourly Cargill workers who alleged that the food manufacturer unlawfully failed to compensate them for the time they spent going through a COVID-19 screening, rejecting the company's argument that the class is overly broad.
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October 03, 2024
A seafood restaurant in Michigan will pay $115,000 in back wages, damages and fines to end a U.S. Department of Labor suit alleging it denied workers their full wages and tips, according to a court filing Thursday.
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October 03, 2024
Denver urged a Colorado federal court to throw out two companies' suit alleging it exceeded its authority in auditing them for wage violations, arguing wage regulation is a local as well as state concern because the cost of living varies across Colorado.
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October 03, 2024
A Seventh Circuit panel's decision that out-of-state workers couldn't join an overtime collective suit by H-2A temporary agricultural workers erodes the Fair Labor Standards Act's goal, a group of law professors said, backing the workers' bid to have the full court weigh in.
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October 02, 2024
A former Giphy engineer alleged in New York federal court that her male colleagues earned over $2 million more than she did after Meta, and later Shutterstock, took over the online database for animated GIFs, despite her complaints that she was being undervalued.
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October 02, 2024
O'Reilly Auto Parts forced hourly paid employees to work off the clock without compensation and routinely failed to provide them with rest and meal periods, a proposed class action filed in California state court said.
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October 02, 2024
Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, misclassified a security guard as an independent contractor, failed to ever pay him wages and fired him when he complained about it, according to a suit filed in California state court.
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October 02, 2024
A New Jersey federal judge greenlighted a $2.7 million settlement that resolves a suit from a collective of sales specialists who accused pharmaceutical company Teva of unlawfully denying them overtime wages during an extended training program.
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October 01, 2024
A Washington appeals court refused to upend a class of workers' $3.3 million win in their lawsuit accusing a Seattle-based hospital of failing to provide them with 30-minute meal periods, saying employees in Washington state are entitled to additional pay if they're forced to work through their breaks.
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October 01, 2024
A $335,000 wage deal between background investigators and the tech company that employed them can go forward because it is fair and reasonable, a California federal judge said, approving the settlement.
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October 01, 2024
California's Assembly Bill 5 raising the standard to classify workers as independent contractors is unconstitutional because it targets companies like Postmates and Uber, two business groups told the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, urging the justices to take up a Ninth Circuit ruling.
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October 01, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice is backing a proposed class action from University of Pittsburgh Medical Center workers who say the hospital used noncompetes and blacklists to suppress wages, telling a Pennsylvania federal judge that UPMC's motion to dismiss the suit sets an "insurmountable" pre-discovery bar for plaintiffs.
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October 01, 2024
An entertainment and hospitality company misclassified workers as independent contractors and deprived them of labor protections including overtime wages and rest periods, a proposed class action filed in California state court said.
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October 01, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor and New Jersey's labor office set up a joint enforcement plan to make sure employers are following child labor law, the DOL announced Tuesday.
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October 01, 2024
Beauty products giant Sephora said a New York federal judge used the wrong standard when he departed from a magistrate judge's recommendation and kept alive workers' claims that they were paid late, urging him to reconsider the decision.
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October 01, 2024
A Colorado federal judge refused to throw out a suit from an airline lobbying group alleging the state's sick leave law is unlawful, though he agreed to toss the group's Railway Labor Act claim because the act doesn't meaningfully disrupt current collective bargaining agreements.
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October 01, 2024
A Virginia rehabilitation and nursing care center paid nearly $25,000 for denying workers required benefits and paid sick leave, the U.S. Department of Labor said.
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September 30, 2024
A former dancer hit Atlanta's famous adult entertainment club Magic City with a proposed collective action claiming it mischaracterized her and others as independent contractors and willfully failed to comply with federal wage laws.
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September 30, 2024
The full Fifth Circuit declined Monday to rethink its decision that a crude oil hauler isn't owed overtime because she plays a role in an interstate trip and thus falls under a Fair Labor Standards Act exemption, despite a dissent saying the court drifted too far from the law.
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September 30, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission is withdrawing from an agreement signed in August with the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Labor and the National Labor Relations Board that's meant to increase collaboration when looking at labor issues in mergers.
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September 30, 2024
A Georgia logistics company accused of luring skilled workers from Mexico to the U.S. with empty promises of well-paying technical jobs asked a federal judge Friday to be let out of the proposed class action for want of any ties to the plaintiffs' alleged mistreatment.
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September 30, 2024
A federal employee who was denied top-up pay while on active duty as a military reservist is not owed any wages because he wasn't called to serve in a national emergency despite serving at the same time as one, the U.S. Department of Transportation told the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday.