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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.
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January 23, 2025
Federal agencies will order employees to return to the office by Friday at 5 p.m. to end the "national embarrassment" that remote work policies have fueled, the Office of Personnel Management said, following President Donald Trump's executive order.
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January 23, 2025
A suit alleging SeaWorld didn't properly pay workers and failed to provide meal and rest periods will not move back to California state court, a federal judge ruled, saying the worker behind the case made "incorrect factual statements" about SeaWorld's calculations regarding the amount of money at stake.
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January 23, 2025
Walmart reached a deal to resolve a former worker's lawsuit accusing the company of misclassifying its app-based delivery drivers as independent contractors and failing to provide them the guaranteed wages, breaks and benefits owed to employees, a filing in Washington federal court said.
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January 23, 2025
Paul Hastings LLP represents major companies like Nike and Google, and handled overlapping discrimination government investigations against video game company Activision Blizzard, ultimately notching settlements that closed the book on both probes, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Employment Groups of the Year.
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January 23, 2025
The future of a Biden-era U.S. Department of Labor proposal to eliminate the subminimum wage for workers with disabilities is uncertain, as Republicans appear divided on the issue.
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January 23, 2025
A former payroll analyst for a technology company failed to support her claims that she was fired because she took one month of leave, a Washington federal judge ruled, tossing her Family and Medical Leave Act suit.
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January 23, 2025
A California appeals court refused to reinstate a challenge from several employer associations seeking to strike down new regulations governing how apprentices can spend their time working, saying the California Apprenticeship Council was in the clear to promulgate the new rules.
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January 22, 2025
A California state judge refused to ax the majority of a proposed class action accusing Apple of systematically underpaying women employees, ruling that, at this stage, the workers have adequately alleged violations of the California Equal Pay Act and disparate treatment under the Fair Employment and Housing Act.
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January 22, 2025
The Justice Department is accusing poultry giant Wayne-Sanderson Farms of shirking its obligations under a settlement resolving wage-suppression allegations, asking a Maryland federal court to put a freeze on any information sharing by the company through Agri Stats and to impose a multiyear extension on its 10-year consent decree.
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January 22, 2025
A professional maintenance company that provided services at New York's Rikers Island jail agreed to shell out about $1 million for underpaying immigrant workers and pressuring them to pay kickbacks to keep their jobs, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Wednesday.
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January 22, 2025
New York's paid prenatal leave law, the first in the country, is unique in many ways, meaning employers need to know the ins and outs of who can take such leave, attorneys told Law360, and that it should be tracked separately from other leave offerings. Here, Law360 offers three tips to employers to stay in compliance.
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January 22, 2025
Amazon Flex delivery drivers urged a Washington federal court to certify a 150,000-member class in their lawsuit accusing the company of violating Evergreen State laws by withholding portions of drivers' tips, saying they were all impacted by the same unlawful practice.
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January 22, 2025
Epstein Becker Green's employment team convinced the Fifth Circuit to strike down a major U.S. Department of Labor rule governing employers' ability to take tip credits out of servers' wages, a blockbuster achievement that snagged it a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Employment Groups of the Year.
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January 22, 2025
A U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge has invalidated a 2022 executive order by then-President Joe Biden requiring contractors to work with unions to be considered for federal construction projects over $35 million, saying the mandate "stifles competition."