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March 06, 2024
A group of female professors said a New York federal judge should ax Vassar College's bid to toss their New York equal pay claims from their suit alleging they were paid less than male colleagues, arguing that the college has demanded they provide more detail than necessary.
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March 06, 2024
A media company told a Michigan federal judge that a former copywriter's proposed collective action accusing the company of misclassifying content creators as independent contractors belongs in arbitration, saying the ex-worker had signed an arbitration agreement and she already tried to bring the suit in a different district.
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March 06, 2024
Liff Walsh & Simmons added a partner with experience at the U.S. Department of Labor and doing public interest work to lead and expand its labor and employment practice.
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March 06, 2024
Republican lawmakers in the U.S. Senate and House introduced legislation Wednesday that aims to pump the brakes on the U.S. Department of Labor's independent contractor rule a few days before it goes into effect.
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March 06, 2024
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a slew of trade groups revamped their lawsuit in Texas federal court accusing the U.S. Department of Labor of violating federal law when it issued its latest independent contractor rule, alleging it tried to circumvent a court's earlier ruling.
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March 06, 2024
A New York federal judge OK'd the third version of a $250,000 overtime settlement between a parking garage company and attendants after shooting down previous attempts for letting too many entities off the hook in claim releases, saying the latest deal remedied the issue.
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March 06, 2024
An injunction obtained by the San Francisco city attorney that requires on-demand hospitality staffing company Qwick to reclassify its independent contractor workforce as employees highlights the role local officials have in enforcing employment laws in California, attorneys told Law360.
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March 05, 2024
A former security guard urged the California Supreme Court at a hearing Tuesday to find that his employer must pay retroactive civil penalties for knowingly and intentionally violating wage statement requirements for years while litigating claims it eventually lost, arguing the state labor code doesn't include a good-faith dispute defense.
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March 05, 2024
The Washington Department of Labor and Industries prematurely commenced a wage action against a cannabis company, state appellate judges ruled, because it had not yet determined how much the company owed its workers.
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March 05, 2024
A Third Circuit panel appears likely to uphold a decision dismissing a union's wage grievance win despite buying that a cemetery operator disregarded their deal after all but agreeing Tuesday with a district court judge that the union waited too long to object to the company's alleged violation.
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March 05, 2024
Current and former Amazon employees urged a Washington federal court to grant them class status in their lawsuit accusing the company of demoting or firing workers who took time off for military leave, saying the 15,000 members of the proposed class have plenty in common.
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March 05, 2024
The City of New York cannot escape claims that it discriminatorily favors its mostly white staff of firefighters over its mostly non-white emergency medical workers, as a federal judge held that the two categories of workers were arguably similar.
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March 05, 2024
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce told the U.S. Supreme Court that courts must stay suits they sent into arbitration, saying that the Federal Arbitration Act doesn't contemplate the dismissal option.
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March 05, 2024
An Arkansas federal judge ruled a group of exotic dancers proved they should have been classified as employees rather than independent contractors, but said she could not yet determine who the dancers' employer actually was.
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March 05, 2024
NYU's Terri Gerstein, a workers' rights advocate, said that there needs to be major reforms in child labor laws to heighten the cost of noncompliance and empower workers to come forward in order to address the increase in violations.
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March 05, 2024
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP is expanding its California team, announcing Tuesday it is bringing in a pair of Morrison Foerster LLP employment litigators as partners in its Los Angeles office.
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March 05, 2024
Jackson Lewis PC has added a former Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC shareholder to its New York City office, bringing on an attorney who is looking to help clients navigate the unique challenges of the Big Apple's ever-evolving landscape of workplace regulations.
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March 05, 2024
The Second Circuit in a published opinion Tuesday sent workers' wage class action against a New York City restaurant operator back down to a district court after the restaurant appealed a $5 million judgment against it on state labor law claims, saying the workers' federal claims are still in limbo.
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March 05, 2024
A Black attorney's discrimination and retaliation claims against the District of Columbia and a chief administrative law judge cannot stand, the district told a federal court, arguing in part that the attorney failed to raise some of her claims with the EEOC.
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March 05, 2024
An Iowa-based residential care company that provides nonemergency transportation will pay more than $13,000 to end a suit brought by the U.S. Department of Labor accusing it of denying workers their overtime wages, according to court papers filed Tuesday.
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March 05, 2024
BMW and a worker told a California federal judge they reached a settlement agreement in the worker's suit accusing the car manufacturer of stiffing a proposed class on minimum and overtime wages and committing a slew of other labor violations.
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March 05, 2024
The Ottinger Firm PC is being sued by two law firms over allegedly refusing to fairly split $666,666 in attorney fees after helping them secure a $2 million settlement in an employment class action, according to an unfiled complaint drafted Friday.
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March 04, 2024
A Nevada federal judge culled individual ranches from a sheepherder's antitrust lawsuit Monday, ruling that for now, the proposed class action has failed to specify their role in an alleged scheme led by the Western Range Association to keep guest worker wages down to the level of "permanent indentured servitude."
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March 04, 2024
Elon Musk fired four top Twitter executives just minutes after he closed on his deal to buy the company, now called X Corp., to avoid paying them $200 million in severance benefits, they told a California federal court Monday.
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March 04, 2024
Counsel for Uber drivers told a federal jury in Philadelphia on Monday that the ride-hailing company saved big on labor costs by misclassifying them as independent contractors instead of employees entitled to benefits.