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March 29, 2024
In the coming two weeks, attorneys should watch for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in a pair of cases involving the ministerial exception. Here's a look at those cases and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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March 29, 2024
In the coming week, a New York federal judge will hear arguments over whether to issue sanctions against a clothing store for not responding to discovery requests in a lawsuit brought by a former sales associate who claims she was unlawfully denied overtime and minimum wage.
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March 29, 2024
The indictment of the owner and a manager at famed New York City pizzeria Grimaldi's on charges of stealing wages represents a warning to employers and shows a growing recognition that criminal prosecution is an important tool against wage theft, experts say.
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March 29, 2024
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed a bill that would have raised the hourly minimum wage in the state to $15 by 2026, saying it would have jeopardized market freedom and would have been a burden on small businesses.
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March 29, 2024
Three Louisiana-based Flowers Foods delivery drivers fit an exemption in federal wage law for workers engaged in interstate commerce "any way you slice it," the Fifth Circuit found as it upheld the dismissal of their overtime lawsuit.
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March 28, 2024
A Georgia federal judge has granted conditional class certification to a group of Hard Rock Cafe servers alleging the company forfeited its right to pay servers subminimum tipped wages by compelling them to perform excessive untipped work and not telling them a tip credit would be taken against their wages.
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March 28, 2024
A courier company told the U.S. Supreme Court that statutory language compelling courts to stay arbitration-bound cases does not preclude dismissal of those cases, arguing that a strict reading of the word "stay" would improperly strip courts of their discretion to manage their dockets.
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March 28, 2024
A Michigan mortgage company has not been paying its loan officers, processors, partners and lead generators overtime premiums for the hours they worked over 40 or all their wages earned, two former employees claimed in a proposed collective action filed in federal court.
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March 28, 2024
Florida State University and a former program coordinator have agreed to settle her lawsuit alleging FSU fired her for asking to take time off to care for her father during his cancer treatment, they told a federal court.
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March 28, 2024
A California state jury said the Los Angeles Police Department should pay a former officer nearly $11.6 million over allegations that it subjected him to unwarranted investigations because he's Samoan and transferred him out of a prestigious K-9 bomb detection unit when he complained.
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March 28, 2024
The Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday that a former Sirius XM employee cannot hold the radio company and its streaming service Pandora liable for unpaid expenses they were unaware of, backing a California federal court's decision handing the companies a pretrial win in the worker's proposed class action.
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March 28, 2024
A racetrack and casino will pay $850,000 to a class of casino dealers who allege they were wrongly reclassified as hospitality workers and paid lower hourly rates, as a New York federal judge granted final approval to a settlement to their wage dispute.
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March 28, 2024
Days before a $20 hourly minimum wage for California fast-food workers takes effect, a last-minute law containing exemptions brings relief but also concerns to employers, attorneys said. Here, Law360 explores A.B. 610.
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March 28, 2024
Amazon called the Ninth Circuit's attention to a Sixth Circuit ruling holding that federal arbitration law's exemption for transportation workers does not apply to companies that perform transportation work, saying the circuit should follow suit and send a worker's wage suit against Amazon into arbitration.
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March 28, 2024
An Oklahoma dirt work contractor paid nearly $100,000 in back wages and damages for misclassifying workers as independent contractors, the U.S. Department of Labor announced.
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March 28, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor said four entities failed to support their assertion that the department's final rule regulating prevailing wages will hurt them, urging a Texas federal court to toss those claims.
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March 28, 2024
The Second Circuit should reject a cleaning company's argument that a $57,100 arbitration award isn't a judicial document because it tackles the heart of a misclassification suit, a janitor said, saying a Connecticut federal court correctly unsealed the award.
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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.
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March 28, 2024
Massachusetts' highest court on Thursday affirmed a finding that a furniture retailer violated the state's wage laws by paying salespeople overtime and a Sunday premium out of their own earned commissions, keeping intact a nearly $10 million damages award.
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March 27, 2024
An employee misclassification case against USA Today will move from Pennsylvania to Virginia federal court, as a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled that Virginia's convenience to the media company and potential collective members outweighs the venue preference of the worker who brought the suit.
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March 27, 2024
A bricklayer alleged that a California-based construction firm should have paid him and his fellow workers to ride a shuttle up to an hour each way to job sites, according to a proposed class action made public in Pennsylvania state court Wednesday.
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March 27, 2024
A Maryland federal judge granted a group of home healthcare aides conditional collective certification Wednesday in their suit alleging their employer misclassified them as independent contractors to avoid paying them overtime wages, agreeing they had similar duties and were subject to the same pay practices.
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March 27, 2024
A California federal judge signed off on a $3.8 million deal to settle claims that agricultural chemical companies Dow AgroSciences LLC and Corteva Agriscience LLC failed to pay workers for on-call time.
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March 27, 2024
The Ninth Circuit will weigh in on whether workers may pursue unpaid wage claims by joining collective actions in forum states to which they have no personal connection after granting Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc.'s request to appeal a collective certification order.
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March 27, 2024
A New York federal judge agreed to stay discovery pending a home healthcare company's forthcoming bid to toss a home health aide's lawsuit alleging the company failed to pay its aides on a weekly basis as required for manual workers in the state.