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March 25, 2024
An operator of group homes under contract with the D.C. Behavioral Health Department paid more than $560,000 for denying 34 workers their full wages and benefits, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Monday.
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March 25, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division is expected to receive $260 million through the end of the fiscal year after President Joe Biden signed off on the latest bipartisan government funding bill.
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March 25, 2024
Current and former employees of a Pennsylvania coal company earned conditional certification and did not violate soliciting rules for a collective action accusing management of violating overtime rules by not compensating time spent attending to gear before and after shifts, a federal judge ruled.
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March 25, 2024
A Tennessee company that manufactures parts for outdoor power equipment will pay nearly $297,000 in fines and turn over $1.5 million in profits to settle a U.S. Department of Labor suit accusing it of violating child labor laws, according to court filings.
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March 25, 2024
Amazon urged a New Jersey federal court to dismiss claims that it illegally withheld pay for time spent in mandatory security screenings, arguing that the undisputed facts establish that those screenings were not mandatory at all.
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March 25, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a First Circuit finding that Puerto Rico's fiscal management board was within its authority to void a 2022 labor law expanding some benefits for private employees because it had not been given an opportunity to review the legislation.
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March 25, 2024
An Illinois federal judge said he had doubts about claims that United Airlines owes pay to pilots taking military leaves, saying he'll wait for several appeals courts to decide the fate of similar suits before signing off on class certification.
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March 25, 2024
Governments at all levels can use their purchasing power to ensure that private companies meet labor standards, especially when a locality can’t enact wage requirements itself, according to Courtlyn Roser-Jones, an assistant professor at the Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law. Here, Law360 speaks with Roser-Jones about using contracting requirements to ensure governments do business with employers that comply with employment laws.
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March 22, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments this week over the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's decision expanding access to popular abortion pill mifepristone as well as whether juries should determine a defendants' eligibility for repeat offender enhanced sentencing under the Armed Career Criminal Act and how long federal employees have to appeal adverse employment decisions.
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March 22, 2024
A Washington floral wreath and garland manufacturer will pay $1.9 million to close a U.S. Department of Labor probe into allegations that it underpaid and withheld safe housing and transportation from hundreds of temporary migrant workers.
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March 22, 2024
Four states told the Ninth Circuit that the Biden administration's implementation of a $15-per-hour minimum wage for federal contractors was unlawful, arguing that the government misinterpreted a statement of statutory purpose as a mandate for broad regulatory authority.
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March 22, 2024
A former cannabis attorney at boutique firm Hiller PC told a New York state judge on Friday that her wage suit should stay in place in its entirety, saying that her contract existence doesn't prevent unjust enrichment claims.
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March 22, 2024
A New York federal judge applied a recommendation to certify a class of workers in a lawsuit claiming translation services company TransPerfect underpaid overtime wages, saying a magistrate judge's analysis was thorough, well-reasoned and included no clear errors.
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March 22, 2024
New York City recently added a private right of action to its paid sick and safe leave law, raising the risk that employers could see class action lawsuits if they fail to provide the required time off to employees or document it properly, experts say.
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March 22, 2024
A New York realty group asked a federal judge Friday for an early win in a building superintendent's lawsuit alleging he was denied overtime and adequate meal and rest breaks, saying his claims are baseless and he contradicts himself in subsequent court filings.
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March 22, 2024
A Mississippi cleaning service will pay nearly $128,000 in back wages and damages to resolve a U.S. Department of Labor suit accusing it of denying two workers pay as they awaited COVID-19 test results and eventually firing them, according to court papers filed Friday.
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March 22, 2024
Workers claiming that Walmart and a related entity misclassified them as salaried employees exempt from overtime "just barely" met the requirements to move forward as a collective, a Colorado federal judge ruled Friday.
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March 22, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor told the Fifth Circuit that the department has been raising the salary threshold to determine whether employees are overtime-exempt since the Fair Labor Standards Act's inception, urging a panel to keep a Texas federal court's decision.
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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.
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March 22, 2024
In the coming week, the Second Circuit will consider a former Connecticut town employee's attempt to revive a lawsuit claiming she faced sexual harassment on the job without an adequate response from the town. Here, Law360 explores this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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March 22, 2024
United Airlines has not been paying thousands of flight attendants based out of its LaGuardia-Newark hub on a biweekly basis, instead paying an advance that is supposed to reflect the entire month, an ex-worker said in a proposed class action in New York federal court.
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March 21, 2024
Wisconsin on Thursday solidified a licensing framework for so-called earned wage access services when Gov. Tony Evers signed a state law regulating the cash-advance products.
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March 21, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor asked a Texas federal court to dismiss construction industry trade organizations' bid to unwind a 2023 rule revising prevailing wage methodologies for federal construction projects, saying the groups failed to assert viable injuries.
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March 21, 2024
The operators of several Ohio-based home care staffing agencies have been failing to pay their employees for all the overtime hours they worked, according to a recent proposed class and collective action.
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March 21, 2024
The owner and a manager of a well-known Manhattan pizzeria were indicted in New York state court Thursday on charges of stealing more than $30,000 in wages from seven employees.