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April 01, 2024
FedEx won its bid to decertify a collective of hundreds of drivers alleging they were illegally deprived of overtime wages, as a Massachusetts federal judge found that the workers were subject to different pay practices and thus did not have enough in common to proceed as a group.
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April 01, 2024
As cities add minimum wages for gig workers, gig companies have been responding by altering or threatening to remove their platforms, responses that worker advocates call "retaliation" while management-side attorneys say make sense but risk liability.
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April 01, 2024
A California federal judge placed the final stamp of approval on an $18 million settlement that ends an age discrimination suit alleging tech company HP Inc. unlawfully pushed out hundreds of older workers under the guise of a workforce reduction plan.
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March 29, 2024
A Utah attorney has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to determine whether allegedly retaliatory IRS summonses can be quashed, and two former pharmaceutical executives are challenging the constitutionality of their convictions for marketing the off-label use of a drug. Here, Law360 looks at recently filed petitions that you might've missed.
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March 29, 2024
A group of chauffeurs slammed its employer's bid to compel arbitration of unpaid wage claims less than three weeks before the claims are scheduled to go to trial, calling the motion a frivolous, eleventh-hour effort to disrupt trial preparation.
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March 29, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor doesn't need direct congressional authorization to raise the minimum salary threshold for overtime exemption because such a policy change is neither unprecedented nor economically impactful, a progressive think tank told the Fifth Circuit.
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March 29, 2024
An Alabama steel mill urged the Eleventh Circuit on Friday to reverse a misconduct-triggered default judgment that led to workers being awarded $13.1 million in a wage and hour suit they filed alleging the mill shorted hundreds of workers on hourly wages, overtime pay and bonuses.
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March 29, 2024
Employees working on a gas loading facility earning six-figure paychecks are exempt from overtime requirements under federal law because their pay was calculated on a salary basis, a Tennessee federal judge ruled.
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March 29, 2024
Call center workers looking to hold AT&T liable for failing to pay them overtime wages were denied collective certification, with an Illinois federal judge ruling they needed to propose a narrower group definition because there was not enough evidence to support a nationwide collective.
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March 29, 2024
Fiat Chrysler must face a proposed collective action by workers accusing the automaker of failing to fully pay overtime wages, with a Michigan federal judge saying Friday that the company's argument improperly attacked the claims' merits rather than whether there was enough proof to keep them in court.
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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.