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April 04, 2024
The full Ninth Circuit won't review a panel's decision ruling that a Lowe's worker's nonindividual claims under California's Private Attorneys General Act could stay in court while her individual claims go into arbitration, denying the company's bid to step in.
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April 04, 2024
A filmmaker for ABC and Disney repeatedly ignored a multiracial development director's complaints that she was underpaid and eventually fired her for speaking up about bias and harassment she faced on the job, she said in a suit in California state court.
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April 04, 2024
When industry groups challenge U.S. Department of Labor wage and hour rules, they often choose as counsel former agency officials who say their prior knowledge gives them a unique ability to take on regulations. Here, Law360 explores the trend.
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April 03, 2024
A farmworker and the agricultural operation he accused of breaching California state minimum and overtime pay rules asked a federal court for input on whether an arbitrator had authority to weigh in on a yet-unaddressed motion to dismiss claims filed in federal court.
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April 03, 2024
A Ninth Circuit panel on Wednesday seemed skeptical of a worker's argument that the ministerial exception does not apply to his suit accusing an Orthodox Jewish organization of failing to pay him overtime for his work making sure grapes used for wines were kept kosher.
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April 03, 2024
A pair of construction industry trade groups urged a Texas federal court to preserve their challenge to a U.S. Department of Labor rule that revises prevailing wage calculations for federally funded projects, arguing that the rule injures both them and the firms they represent.
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April 03, 2024
A group of Wells Fargo bankers urged a California federal judge to keep alive their proposed class action accusing the bank of misclassifying them as overtime-exempt, saying the bank's parent company cannot evade liability because its operations are intertwined with its subsidiary's.
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April 03, 2024
Contractors performing construction, alteration or repair work on government buildings should have to give the U.S. Department of Labor more detailed information about the deductions they take from workers' wages, a coalition of Democratic state attorneys general told the agency in a letter publicized Wednesday.
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April 03, 2024
A New Mexico federal judge has given preliminary approval to a $525,000 deal that would end a cannabis-employee-led lawsuit accusing dispensary owners of taking a large portion of tips meant for retail workers and giving them to store managers and supervisors.
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April 03, 2024
A Vermont federal judge said that a collective in a suit claiming Bimbo Bakeries misclassified delivery workers as independent contractors can span three states, saying that the court has jurisdiction for out-of-state claims.
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April 03, 2024
Challenges to rules issued by the U.S. Department of Labor and other federal agencies that seek preliminary injunctions have drawn increasing scrutiny as these cases have multiplied and courts issue orders with a nationwide impact, attorneys told Law360.
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April 03, 2024
A South Carolina federal judge on Wednesday shuttled into arbitration a proposed class action accusing Dollar General of automatically deducting meal and rest breaks from workers' time sheets and forcing them to work while they are off the clock, saying the plaintiffs had signed valid arbitration agreements.
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April 03, 2024
A contractor in Arizona will pay $909,000 in back wages, damages and fines to end a U.S. Department of Labor suit alleging it failed to pay overtime wages and keep accurate records, according to court papers.
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April 03, 2024
A former senior appraiser for the Internal Revenue Service was appropriately fired for golfing on company time, a federal appeals court affirmed Wednesday.
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April 02, 2024
Making reference to Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken," Uber Technologies Inc. on Monday said a group of UberBlack drivers chose their road when they urged a Pennsylvania federal court to consider less than a unanimous verdict, and could not turn back around when the jurors leaned toward declaring them independent contractors.
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April 02, 2024
Poultry processing workers sought preliminary approval Monday for deals with Case Foods Inc. and Mountaire Farms totaling $22 million that would make the companies the 10th and 11th wage-fixing defendants to settle out of a broader Maryland federal court case where total payouts reach $217.25 million.
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April 02, 2024
A Michigan federal judge cut claims for wages asserted under state law from a call center worker's proposed collective action, without prompting, ruling that differences between state and federal wage laws overly complicated the case and posed risk of confusion for a future jury.
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April 02, 2024
A transportation company and its subsidiary said they won't challenge a First Circuit ruling that time long-haul truckers spend in sleeper berths is compensable, agreeing to shell out a $2.5 million judgment on top of an already approved $12.5 million deal.
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April 02, 2024
Hertz urged a Florida federal court to reject a bid to certify a collective of workers who allege they were misclassified as managers, arguing that their duties varied too widely for them to be lumped together as a cohesive unit.
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April 02, 2024
A California state lawmaker has introduced a first-of-its-kind bill that would give workers the right to ignore emails, text messages and phone calls from their employers after they clock out.
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April 02, 2024
A dental company has not paid its hourly workers all their overtime wages owed, nor does it pay them on a weekly basis as New York Labor Law requires for manual workers, a former dental assistant claimed in a proposed collective action launched in federal court.
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April 02, 2024
An Eleventh Circuit panel's decision that a Florida county wasn't the employer of three golf court attendants clashes with precedents set by appeals courts and the U.S. Supreme Court, the trio said, urging the full circuit court to step into their wage dispute.
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April 02, 2024
Littler Mendelson PC has added a shareholder in its San Diego office from Jackson Lewis PC, bringing on an attorney who has more than a decade of experience representing employers in both state and federal matters.
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April 02, 2024
Two fish processors told a Washington federal judge they reached a deal to end a suit alleging their employers violated minimum wage requirements when they implemented mandatory quarantines during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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April 02, 2024
Five Thai restaurants under common ownership in Washington paid nearly $138,000 in back wages, damages and fines for denying 51 workers overtime rates, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Tuesday.