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April 02, 2024
A New York federal judge refused to toss a proposed class action alleging the airline Emirates withheld severance from American workers after they were furloughed and then let go during the COVID-19 pandemic, ruling the employees showed they may have been owed extra money.
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April 02, 2024
A restaurant and pub in South Carolina paid nearly $126,000 in back wages to 23 workers for improperly distributing and using tips, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Tuesday.
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April 02, 2024
The deadline for employers in Illinois to apply for an equal pay registration certificate — which involves submitting wage and demographic information and attesting that workplace anti-bias compliance is up to snuff — recently passed. Here's what businesses there need to know.
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April 02, 2024
A gas supplier has not been paying its branch managers overtime wages, instead paying them a salary and designating them as overtime-exempt, two former managers said in a proposed collective action filed in Pennsylvania federal court.
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April 02, 2024
One of the attorneys representing a proposed class of Philadelphia Uber drivers in their wage suit against the company left the Steel City's Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti LLP for the new New Jersey office of Lichten & Liss-Riordan PC, his co-counsel in the ride-hailing case.
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April 01, 2024
A Florida federal judge on Friday adopted a magistrate judge's recommendation to uphold a U.S. Department of Labor rule raising the wages of H-2A agricultural workers, rejecting objections from farm groups that the report was overly deferential to the government's arguments.
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April 01, 2024
A group of Amazon delivery drivers urged the Ninth Circuit to take no notice of a recent decision by the Sixth Circuit that transportation industry LLCs are not exempt from arbitration, saying the decision was wrong on the law and featured drivers who worked under vastly different contracts.
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April 01, 2024
A security guard and support worker for at-risk youth in public schools alleged in a proposed class and collective action filed in Michigan federal court that the staffing firm that employed him breached its obligation to pay time-and-a-half wages for overtime work.
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April 01, 2024
The Ninth Circuit reversed a district court's order that dismissed representative claims against janitorial franchiser Coverall North America Inc. under California's Private Attorneys General Act, saying a change in legal precedent allows nonindividual claims to stay in court while individual claims undergo arbitration.
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April 01, 2024
The top court in Massachusetts on Monday appeared stumped by whether owners of 7-Eleven franchisees should be classified as employees under state law, with one justice calling the issue "almost incomprehensible."
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April 01, 2024
A Georgia federal judge has granted conditional class certification to a group of former and current employees of a smart home technology firm, who allege the company failed to compensate them correctly for overtime hours they worked.
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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.