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March 27, 2024
A restaurant in California will pay $2 million for denying 32 workers their full wages over three years, the California Labor Commissioner's Office announced.
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March 27, 2024
Several construction groups said the U.S. Department of Labor is illegally trying to expand the reach of the Davis-Bacon Act with its final rule regulating prevailing wages, urging a Texas federal court to bring the rule to a screeching halt.
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March 27, 2024
The California Supreme Court's decision that a construction contractor must pay workers for the time they spent waiting in their cars to go through a security check before leaving the job site provides guideposts for determining when wages are owed in other scenarios, attorneys told Law360.
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March 27, 2024
The New Jersey attorney general's office said Wednesday that its Division on Civil Rights preliminarily concluded that a public school district may have violated discrimination laws by preventing women on parental leave from coaching extracurricular activities.
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March 27, 2024
An Atlanta immigration law firm is facing a lawsuit in Georgia federal court from a paralegal who says he was misclassified as an independent contractor and denied overtime pay, despite routinely working upward of 40 hours per week.
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March 27, 2024
A former copywriter accusing a media company of misclassifying its content creators as independent contractors implored a Michigan federal judge to ignore the company's request to send the suit into arbitration, saying it's not the court's responsibility to assuage the company's "buyers' remorse" and rewrite its contractor pact.
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March 27, 2024
Minneapolis' upcoming pay floor for gig drivers may get a second look in the City Council, and Washington, D.C., has joined the wave of requiring pay transparency. Here, Law360 explores these and other state and local wage and hour developments attorneys should know.
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March 26, 2024
A war of words Tuesday at the U.S. Supreme Court over access to abortion medication marked a climactic moment after a lengthy legal slugfest. But probing questions from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson illustrated that the main event for reproductive rights was also simply a single round in a much larger fight over the government's regulatory powers.
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March 26, 2024
An Oregon federal judge on Tuesday adopted a magistrate judge's recommendation to grant a strip club a partial early win in a group of dancers' wage lawsuit against it, agreeing that the workers' federal wage claims were brought too late and that their retaliation claim hadn't properly identified their employer.
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March 26, 2024
Workers accusing Amazon of owing them pay pointed to a newly released California Supreme Court decision to support their arguments that a settlement in a case pending in a Kentucky multidistrict litigation shouldn't go forward, according to a Tuesday filing in California federal court.
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March 26, 2024
A New York federal judge in Manhattan trimmed hostile work environment and biased firing claims Tuesday from a gender discrimination lawsuit a fired female executive brought against insurance company MetLife, but said there was enough evidence the insurance giant paid her less than her male co-workers and denied her promotions.
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March 26, 2024
Workers who prevail against their employers in unpaid wage litigation must be awarded reasonable attorney fees and costs, a California appeals court held, even if judges believe those cases are better filed in small claims court.
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March 26, 2024
A medical staffing company is trying to circumvent clear error standards simply because it didn't like a federal court's conclusion that the company must pay $9 million in a misclassification suit, the U.S. Department of Labor told the Fourth Circuit.
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March 26, 2024
A Sixth Circuit panel added to confusion about how employers are supposed to reimburse workers' expenses when it vacated lower court decisions that endorsed a pair of methods for tabulating pizza delivery drivers' outlays.
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March 26, 2024
A logistics company in San Diego will pay more than $454,000 in back wages and damages for denying workers overtime and minimum wage rates, according to court papers filed by the U.S. Department of Labor in California federal court Tuesday.
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March 26, 2024
The Federal Circuit breathed new life Tuesday into a pharmacist's suit alleging she was paid less than a male colleague by a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical center, ruling the federal government can't rely on salary history alone to dispel gender bias claims.
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March 26, 2024
The federal government cannot withhold information regarding an ongoing wage theft investigation, a fishery told a Mississippi federal court, because the probe is inextricably linked with claims that the company retaliated against employees who cooperated.
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March 26, 2024
A tortilla manufacturer must face claims that it illegally denied two drivers overtime wages after a Texas federal judge denied the company's request for an early win, saying it had not proven that an exemption for outside sales workers applied to the drivers.
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March 26, 2024
Athena Health Care Systems and two of its former workers asked a Connecticut federal court to approve their proposed settlement agreement resolving claims that the company deducted wages for meal breaks even though it purportedly made them work during those breaks.
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March 25, 2024
Justice Neil Gorsuch expressed incredulity that the U.S. Supreme Court has to resolve a Pentagon employee's $3,000 dispute stemming from a furlough decision, remarking Monday on the "extraordinary" lengths the government has gone to in fighting the case.
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March 25, 2024
Time spent by workers undergoing an employer's security check that includes an inspection of the worker's personal vehicle is compensable as hours worked, but time spent driving between the security gate and the parking lot is not, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday, answering a Ninth Circuit panel's queries.
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March 25, 2024
A group of immigrant detainees has urged the Ninth Circuit to reject the federal government's stance that a privately run detention center in Tacoma is exempt from Washington's minimum wage, saying the United States has failed to point to any conflicting federal laws.
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March 25, 2024
A New York federal judge said a former Boar's Head employee showed that other workers are similarly situated in his late pay suit, granting the worker's bid for conditional certification of a collective.
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March 25, 2024
A former employee told a Delaware federal court that X Corp. can't derail a suit alleging it owes $500 million for skimping on severance pay after Elon Musk took over and fired thousands of workers, saying X breached the pact it's trying to use to force arbitration.
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March 25, 2024
The Biden administration lacks authority to implement a $15-per-hour minimum wage for government contractors, three Southern states told the Fifth Circuit, because the Procurement Act only empowers the executive branch to trim federal expenditures.