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January 27, 2025
A Ninth Circuit panel disregarded U.S. Supreme Court precedent when it ruled that the salary basis test applies differently to public and private employees, a group of San Francisco nurses said, urging the justices to step in.
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January 27, 2025
A Florida federal magistrate judge has refused to step down from a case where she recommended sanctioning an attorney representing a franchisee in a contract dispute with CBD American Shaman LLC, saying adverse rulings are not grounds for recusal.
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January 27, 2025
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP scored significant employer-side wins this year, including a Texas federal court's decision to nationally invalidate a federal rule banning noncompetes and defeating misclassification claims against Uber in Massachusetts, once again earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Employment Groups of the Year.
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January 27, 2025
A food service worker at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center was denied her leave and accommodation requests during her pregnancy and eventually fired for being absent too much, she said in a suit filed in Pennsylvania federal court.
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January 27, 2025
A split Ninth Circuit opinion finding that applying Washington's minimum wage law to federal immigration detainees doesn't violate intergovernmental immunity shows the role state law will play in future battles over the employee status of those in civil detention, attorneys say.
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January 27, 2025
Harvard University is violating Massachusetts wage law by paying its faculty once a month rather than weekly or biweekly, an instructor alleged in a proposed class action filed in state court.
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January 27, 2025
Anthem urged a New York federal court to dismantle a collective of nurses who accused the healthcare company of incorrectly classifying them as overtime-exempt, saying the workers' jobs varied too much to let them proceed as a group.
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January 24, 2025
The U.S. Department of Labor on Friday halted all investigations and enforcement in the wake of President Donald Trump's executive order earlier this week pulling a longstanding, core legal authority used to prevent federal contractors from discriminating against workers.
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January 24, 2025
A Colorado federal judge asked the state whether a law requiring Uber to disclose driver pay to riders can be compared to cigarette warning labels if riders are getting the information after a ride is completed, at a hearing Friday to consider whether to block the law from taking effect.
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January 24, 2025
An independent freight carrier that allegedly contracts with Amazon has been hit with a proposed class action in New York federal court claiming its delivery drivers are deprived of meal breaks, overtime pay and other wages.
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January 24, 2025
President Donald Trump issued an executive order on his first day in office requiring nearly all federal employees to return to physical offices, a shift away from telework that some private sector companies are also embracing. Here, experts discuss four errors that private employers make when implementing return-to-work policies.
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January 24, 2025
Two workers will have another shot at arguing an electric company failed to pay the proper amount of overtime because state law doesn't exclude performance bonuses from overtime math, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Friday.
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January 24, 2025
An Oregon federal judge gave the green light to a $14.5 million settlement that resolves a 17,000-member class action accusing a healthcare company of failing to provide nurses and other hourly employees with uninterrupted meal periods.
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January 24, 2025
An office cleaning company will pay $182,500 to end a U.S. Department of Labor suit alleging it stiffed workers on overtime and minimum wages, according to a filing in Puerto Rico federal court Friday.
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January 24, 2025
A Campbell's subsidiary fails to compensate hourly paid packing employees for the several minutes they spend each day performing certain tasks before and after their shifts, a proposed collective action filed in North Carolina federal court said.
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January 24, 2025
In the next week, attorneys should watch for the potential final approval of a $3.6 million settlement in a wage and hour class action against a freight carrier. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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January 24, 2025
Shegerian & Associates won two jury trials for an oncologist in her gender discrimination lawsuit and secured a $14 million award for a bank manager who was fired for taking leave to care for her critically ill husband, earning the firm a place among the 2024 Law360 Employment Groups of the Year.
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January 24, 2025
The film "Anora," which has now received six Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture, sheds light on wage and hour issues involving exotic dancers, who frequently bring claims stemming from their independent contractor classification. Here, Law360 explores the issue.
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January 24, 2025
This week, a New York federal judge will consider YouGov's bid to toss a former executive's lawsuit claiming she was discriminated against because of her gender and ultimately forced to resign after she complained about her treatment.
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January 24, 2025
A communications construction contractor will pay $190,000 to end a proposed class and collective action alleging it failed to pay field workers overtime wages for hours worked over 40 per week, according to a filing in Pennsylvania federal court Friday.
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January 24, 2025
Fifth Third Bank and a slew of other companies, including United Airlines, compensated employees through prepaid cards that required workers to pay fees to get their wages, a worker said in a proposed class action filed in California state court.
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January 24, 2025
Convenience store chain Circle K requires store managers to make trips to other locations to pick up out-of-stock items but doesn't reimburse them for the costs associated with this travel, a proposed class action filed in Illinois state court said.
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January 23, 2025
A Trump administration order barring federal contractors from engaging in diversity, equity and inclusion programs could face court challenges, following the path of decisions rejecting the Biden administration's arguments it had statutory authority for minimum wage and vaccine requirements.
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January 23, 2025
Washington's highest court clarified on Thursday that the state's moonlighting protections shield low-wage workers from noncompete terms that would outright ban them working for any competitor in any capacity, concluding that employers must narrowly tailor such restrictions to be line with employees' common-law duty of loyalty.
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January 23, 2025
The New York Police Department pays officers months late for their time spent performing off-duty uniformed security work for participating businesses, according to a proposed class and collective action filed in New York federal court Thursday.