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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.
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March 21, 2024
BNSF Railway Co. and a conductor who alleged that he was illegally fired for his use of medical leave have reached a settlement to their Family and Medical Leave Act dispute, according to a notice filed in Washington federal court.
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March 21, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor fined a Baskin-Robbins franchisee with eight locations in Utah nearly $50,000 for allowing minors to work later and longer than allowed by law, the agency said Thursday.
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March 21, 2024
A former hourly worker for a Colorado-based cannabis dispensary said the company failed to provide employees with mandatory meal and rest breaks or compensate them for those missed breaks, according to a proposed class action in Colorado state court.
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March 21, 2024
The Virginia governor’s recent veto of pay transparency and salary history legislation shows that not all states are ready to advance such requirements, even as worker advocates say they are seeing widespread momentum on the issue. Here, Law360 examines what the veto could mean for the state of the pay transparency movement.
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March 21, 2024
Nearly three dozen contractors working on a federal earthquake recovery program on a U.S. Navy base in California paid more than $1.5 million in back wages, damages and fines for denying 413 workers their full wages and benefits, the U.S. Department of Labor said.
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March 21, 2024
A California panel said a worker can sue an agriculture company under the Private Attorneys General Act even if she didn't advance individual claims under the state law, flipping a lower court's ruling striking her suit.
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March 21, 2024
A government contractor said federal law doesn't cover its policy giving employees a bonus upon retirement, but workers lodging a lawsuit against the company weren't eligible for the payments anyway, urging a North Carolina court to toss the suit.
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March 21, 2024
SkyWest Airlines and a group of ex-pilots asked a California federal judge to approve a $650,000 settlement ending a suit accusing the airline of failing to pay minimum wage, saying the deal is a more than fair and reasonable resolution.
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March 21, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor recovered more than $199,000 in back wages for 37 workers denied their full wages and benefits by a Massachusetts-based construction subcontractor working on a federally funded project at a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Rhode Island, the DOL said.
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March 20, 2024
A Connecticut federal judge has conditionally certified a boat captain's federal wage claims against a government subcontractor specializing in bridge projects, reasoning he sufficiently pled a violation of overtime pay policy, while declining to greenlight sub-collectives under New Jersey and Pennsylvania laws.
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March 20, 2024
The full Ninth Circuit on Wednesday appeared to not lean one way or the other in determining whether California's Assembly Bill 5 is rational or irrational, indicating that the future of the worker classification law remains uncertain.