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April 23, 2025
An aviation services contractor fails to provide workers with mandatory 10-minute rest periods and declines to compensate them for this missed time, a proposed class action filed Wednesday in Colorado state court said.
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April 23, 2025
Federal law preemption arguments, new pumping guidance, military leave disputes and exemption questions are some of the biggest wage and hour issues that come up for flight personnel and are worth keeping an eye on, attorneys said. Here, Law360 explores these four issues.
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April 23, 2025
Cozen O'Connor announced Wednesday that an employment and appellate litigator from Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is joining its Chicago office after 15 years practicing in Kentucky.
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April 23, 2025
U.S. Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy, R-La., on Wednesday unveiled proposals he says will modernize the independent contractor model without hindering workers' flexibility and profit opportunities, suggesting several changes Congress could take.
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April 23, 2025
A Pennsylvania-based franchisee of fast-casual salad eatery Saladworks cannot escape a proposed collective action accusing it of misclassifying assistant managers as overtime-exempt, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, rejecting the company's argument that there aren't enough assistant managers to support a collective.
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April 23, 2025
A tech company failed to pay employees for the time they spent booting up and logging into their computers before being able to start their work, a customer service worker said in a proposed class and collective action filed in Michigan federal court.
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April 23, 2025
United Airlines pays flight attendants only for the time they work during flights and declines to pay them any wages or overtime for pre- and post-flight tasks they're required to complete, according to a proposed class action filed in Illinois state court.
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April 23, 2025
Management-side labor and employment firm FordHarrison LLP announced this week that it bolstered its Tampa ranks with a new partner from Bush Graziano Rice & Hearing PA.
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April 22, 2025
Washington state troopers can sue their employer directly in superior court over alleged minimum wage violations before exhausting the grievance process under collective bargaining agreements, an Evergreen State appellate court said Tuesday, distinguishing the challenged policies from the union contracts.
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April 22, 2025
A Georgia federal judge ended a lawsuit against Fulton County, Georgia, brought by a former juvenile court employee who said her firing constituted age and disability discrimination, ruling Tuesday that there was no dispute it was the court — not the county — that she should have sued.
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April 22, 2025
Six temporary workers claimed in a potential class action filed Monday that salad kit maker Fresh Express failed to train them to operate dangerous equipment or mitigate safety risks and that the staffing agencies that sent them there failed to pay wages comparable to what their hired employees make in violation of Illinois law.
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April 22, 2025
Wells Fargo cannot shut down a senior finance manager's lawsuit alleging she faced backlash after she sought to work remotely because of health issues, the employee told a North Carolina federal court, saying she put forward enough detail to show she suffered discriminatory actions.
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April 22, 2025
A North Carolina sheriff's office reached a deal with a class of detention center employees to end their lawsuit alleging they were underpaid because the sheriff paid them for a flat number of hours without considering that their work schedules varied, according to a filing in federal court.
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April 22, 2025
A search-and-rescue helicopter company is a common carrier by air that engages in interstate commerce and therefore can escape a proposed collective action brought by a group of employees who claimed unpaid overtime, a Louisiana federal judge ruled.
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April 22, 2025
The owner of a construction company had the power typical of an employer and therefore can't dodge claims that he didn't pay workers' overtime, a former employee told a New York federal court.
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April 22, 2025
The NCAA has officially adopted policy changes that will allow college athletes to be paid, to go into effect when the $2.78 billion antitrust settlement between schools and athletes receives final court approval.
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April 22, 2025
Aviation services provider Swissport will pay more than $3.1 million in penalties and restitution to workers at Boston's Logan International Airport to settle allegations that it violated Massachusetts wage laws, the state attorney general's office announced Tuesday.
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April 22, 2025
A banking company and a former worker agreed to end his proposed collective action accusing the bank of creating fraudulent time records that understated how long loan officers worked to avoid paying them overtime wages, a Texas federal court filing said.
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April 21, 2025
Pay transparency litigation in Washington state highlights the enforcement challenges associated with defining who is a job applicant and offers lessons to other jurisdictions on how to balance these laws' goals with facilitating compliance, attorneys say.
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April 21, 2025
A California judge indicated Monday she may send to arbitration a former JPMorgan Chase Bank worker's individual claim brought under the Private Attorneys General Act alleging the bank encouraged workers to perform off-the-clock work but failed to pay them accordingly, issuing a tentative order that would split off her representative claims and pause them.
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April 21, 2025
New Jersey's attorney general on Monday announced a lawsuit against a general contractor and a group of subcontractors for shorting workers on wages and benefits during the construction of a Jersey City luxury high-rise.
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April 21, 2025
Workers who sued a project management company for allegedly failing to pay proper overtime rates have asked a Georgia federal judge for summary judgment, arguing the company pays employees based on the number of hours worked and, therefore, fails the salary basis test for an overtime exemption.
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April 21, 2025
The arbitration awards a group of X workers tried to present to a Delaware federal court don't add anything to their suit claiming the social media platform owes them additional severance payments, the court ruled, striking them from the docket.
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April 21, 2025
Potential members of a collective action accusing Amazon of misclassifying drivers were not coerced into talking to attorneys representing the company, Amazon told a Washington federal court, urging the court to reject the drivers' bid to slap sanctions on the company.
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April 21, 2025
The U.S. Department of Justice is defending a key wage-fixing and fraud conviction of a Nevada nursing executive, hitting back at the executive's claims that it used privileged documents and communications to sway the jury during the three-week trial.