The U.S. Department of Labor’s newly announced final rule addressing the salary thresholds for overtime exemptions surprised employers’ attorneys with its two-step rollout, while worker advocates said the thresholds could have gone higher. Here, Law360 explores key takeaways.
The U.S. Department of Labor on Tuesday released its long-awaited final rule raising the salary thresholds for overtime exemptions, solidifying aspects of a proposal that faced opposition from Republicans and business groups.
The U.S. Supreme Court tackled Monday whether courts should stay or dismiss suits headed to arbitration, with some justices appearing skeptical of the argument that tossing the suits burdens courts less than pausing litigation.
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The U.S. Department of Labor’s newly announced final rule addressing the salary thresholds for overtime exemptions surprised employers’ attorneys with its two-step rollout, while worker advocates said the thresholds could have gone higher. Here, Law360 explores key takeaways.
The U.S. Department of Labor on Tuesday released its long-awaited final rule raising the salary thresholds for overtime exemptions, solidifying aspects of a proposal that faced opposition from Republicans and business groups.
The U.S. Supreme Court tackled Monday whether courts should stay or dismiss suits headed to arbitration, with some justices appearing skeptical of the argument that tossing the suits burdens courts less than pausing litigation.
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April 25, 2024
A home health care company will pay nearly $1.6 million in back wages, damages and fines to resolve a U.S. Department of Labor lawsuit accusing the company of failing to pay workers overtime wages, according to papers filed Thursday in Pennsylvania federal court.
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April 25, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor's rule sorting out whether workers' are employees or independent contractors should be left in place because it tackles a lingering misclassification problem, two nonprofits said, urging a Tennessee federal court to disregard two freelance writers' challenge to the rule.
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April 25, 2024
A pizza place in southern Michigan and its delivery drivers have asked a federal judge to revive the workers' wage-and-hour lawsuit, a month after the Sixth Circuit overturned the lower court's ruling on how the drivers should be reimbursed for their work-related car use.
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April 25, 2024
New York recently became the first state in the U.S. to require employers to offer paid sick time for pregnant workers to go to the doctor, and experts said that while it shouldn't be a big adjustment for employers, getting the word out about the new requirement is crucial.
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April 25, 2024
A nurse staffing agency pressed the Fourth Circuit to overturn a lower court's decision ordering the agency to pay workers $9 million in a misclassification suit brought by the U.S. Department of Labor, saying the lower court should have made the government prove the nurses were employees.
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April 25, 2024
The California Supreme Court's ruling that pretrial detainees are not entitled to minimum wage and overtime while working in jail was a textualist decision that sidestepped questions of employee and conviction status, experts said.
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April 25, 2024
Marshall Dennehey PC has added an employment law and trial attorney to its Mount Laurel, New Jersey, roster who came aboard from Flahive Mueller LLC.
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April 25, 2024
A sporting goods chain can't take a Michigan federal court's decision letting a former employee pursue a wage claim under Ohio law for a proposed class to the Sixth Circuit, a federal court ruled, saying an appeal won't help the litigation.
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April 25, 2024
A mobile home transportation company in Texas paid nearly $85,000 in back wages for misclassifying 32 workers, the U.S. Department of Labor announced.
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April 25, 2024
A protective paint and coating manufacturer has not been paying its hourly workers all their overtime wages, neglecting to include bonuses and other incentive pay into time-and-a-half premiums, a former worker alleged in a proposed collective action filed in Wisconsin federal court.
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April 24, 2024
Michigan's largest energy company pressured its customer service employees into performing between seven and 18 minutes' worth of unpaid off-the-clock tasks per shift, two former employees have said in a new federal lawsuit accusing DTE Energy of violating the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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April 24, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor recently determined that a subcontractor "repeatedly misclassified" employees who worked on 25 federal highway construction projects in Pennsylvania, according to a notice filed in Pennsylvania federal court Wednesday in a lawsuit against three construction firms.
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April 24, 2024
An Oklahoma federal court preliminarily approved a $730,000 settlement on Wednesday that would resolve Filipino workers' claims that a local couple tricked them into paying steep immigration and recruitment fees to come work for them in the U.S.
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April 24, 2024
Former employees of Foxtrot Market and Dom's Kitchen & Market hit the stores' parent company with a lawsuit in Illinois federal court Thursday, alleging it failed to give workers 60 days' notice of mass layoffs as required by federal law when all 33 locations abruptly shuttered Tuesday.
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April 24, 2024
The city of Raleigh, North Carolina, asked a federal judge Wednesday to toss an ex-police officer's lawsuit alleging it illegally compelled officers to accept time off rather than pay overtime premiums, arguing it acted in accordance with federal labor law.
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April 24, 2024
Louis Vuitton has been hit with a proposed wage and hour class action in Los Angeles Superior Court by a former employee, alleging the luxury fashion company failed to pay overtime, provide proper meal and break periods and manipulated time cards to show fewer hours than worked during the pay period.
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April 24, 2024
A restaurant in Vermont paid nearly $322,000 in back wages, damages and fines for violating tip and overtime regulations, retaliating against a worker and running afoul of child labor laws, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Wednesday.
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April 24, 2024
A California appellate panel sided with a lower court as it ruled in a published opinion that a carveout in a home solar panel company's employment agreement did not require a former worker to arbitrate his individual Private Attorneys General Act claims, keeping his suit in court.
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April 24, 2024
A New Jersey federal judge granted conditional certification to a collective of sales workers accusing pharmaceutical company Teva of unlawfully denying them overtime wages during an extended training program, saying the workers have enough in common to support certification.
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April 23, 2024
A former HSBC Bank employee accusing the company of violating the federal wage and hour law by making employees work through lunch told a New York federal court the company's attorneys are trying to offload responsibility for their client's actions to a former manager.
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April 23, 2024
California healthcare attorneys are preparing for the state's first cap on healthcare spending proposed by a new state office tasked with making care affordable. Industry leaders are sharply split on the viability of a proposed 3% target, which some say may ultimately do more harm than good for a state suffering from skyrocketing healthcare costs.
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April 23, 2024
A U.S. Department of Labor administrative law judge overturned a decision to debar a Minnesota concessions stand company from the H-2B visa program over its failure to pay back wages and penalties, saying the small business's owner had only followed his attorney's advice — right into a legal disaster.
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April 23, 2024
Family Dollar has not been paying its assistant managers overtime wages even though they regularly perform work off-the-clock like sorting money and cleaning the store, an ex-worker claimed in a proposed collective action filed in Tennessee federal court.
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April 23, 2024
Los Angeles County firefighters urged a California federal judge to deny the county's bid for an early win in their suit alleging they weren't paid for time they spent quarantined in hotels during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying the motion attempts to use the courts as a "pawn to escape liability."
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April 23, 2024
An Apple Store in Oklahoma City has agreed to restore the sick time of workers who took off for COVID-19 since last August, pursuant to a recently announced settlement of an unfair labor practice charge filed by the workers' union.