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April 12, 2024
A group of healthcare workers urged a Washington state judge to find that their employer has violated the same wage laws that an affiliated hospital system was recently found liable for in a parallel case, contending at a Friday hearing that the two class actions ultimately target the same parent company.
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April 12, 2024
Employer-side firm Jackson Lewis PC has added a former U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission litigator to its Baltimore office who says her experience with the federal bias watchdog gives her a comprehensive view on how to advise clients.
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April 12, 2024
Retail workers for the high-end fashion brand Comme Des Garçons asked a New York federal judge to grant them nationwide collective certification in a lawsuit alleging the company misclassified them as managers and failed to pay them overtime wages, saying their job duties and compensation methods are the same.
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April 12, 2024
Workers for the now-shuttered digital media startup The Messenger urged a New York federal judge Friday to certify a class of hundreds of staffers who were terminated with no advance notice in violation of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, saying the law is suited for class wide proceedings.
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April 12, 2024
An online pharmacy asked a Massachusetts federal judge Friday to toss claims against it in a delivery worker's independent contractor misclassification lawsuit against the pharmacy and its delivery provider, saying the delivery company is the worker's sole employer.
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April 12, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for the potential dismissal of a proposed age discrimination class and collective action against Twitter Inc. and its successor, X Corp. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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April 12, 2024
This week, the Second Circuit will consider a former marketing manager's lawsuit claiming that the head of the technology company where she worked sexually harassed her and that she was fired after she refused his advances. Here, Law360 explores this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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April 12, 2024
A South Carolina home healthcare company paid more than $37,000 after it misclassified 35 workers, the U.S. Department of Labor announced.
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April 12, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court held Friday that distributors who delivered Tastykake, Wonder bread and other baked goods to retailers may qualify for an exemption from the Federal Arbitration Act that could let them keep their wage-and-hour suit in court.
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April 11, 2024
Fast-food chain Chipotle has agreed to pay nearly $2.9 million to more than 1,800 workers at eight of its restaurants in Seattle to resolve the city's investigation into employees' allegations that the employer violated local ordinances governing sick pay and scheduling, a city labor agency announced Thursday.
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April 11, 2024
The Minneapolis City Council unanimously agreed Thursday to postpone to July 1 the effective date of an ordinance setting up ride-share drivers' minimum wages, temporarily avoiding a Lyft and Uber exodus from the city.
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April 11, 2024
A supermarket chain will pay a former store manager $25,000 to shutter her New York federal court suit claiming she was paid less than her male counterparts, and she was fired after complaining that her male supervisor favored those male colleagues, according to a Thursday filing.
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April 11, 2024
A group of former Geico agents asked the Sixth Circuit to revive their claims that they were misclassified and denied benefits, challenging the accuracy and relevance of plan documents that the lower court reviewed when dismissing the workers' suit.
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April 11, 2024
An Arizona construction contractor specializing in painting will pay $890,000 to settle a U.S. Department of Labor suit accusing it of denying overtime rates and running afoul of child labor laws and recordkeeping requirements, according to papers filed Thursday in Arizona federal court.
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April 11, 2024
A computer and cellphone accessory manufacturer will pay nearly $7,000 to end a former worker's suit alleging unpaid overtime as well as a failure to accommodate her extreme anxiety, a Georgia federal judge ordered Thursday, approving the deal.
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April 11, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor might soon issue a final rule increasing salaries in order for workers to be considered overtime-exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act, after a proposed rule cleared the White House's Office of Management and Budget.
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April 11, 2024
Victoria's Secret Stores has asked a California federal judge to grant it a win in a lawsuit alleging it should have paid employees for the time they spent in pre-shift COVID-19 screenings during the pandemic, saying the claims are barred by a settlement in an identical lawsuit.
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April 11, 2024
An urgent care company that New York City tapped to provide services at migrant facilities failed to compensate workers on time while also owing them weeks of pay, two former employees said in a proposed class and collective action in New York federal court.
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April 11, 2024
Wage-and-hour cases brought by workers on a group basis under both federal and state law have become so routine in federal courts that attorneys told Law360 they're puzzled by a Michigan federal judge's refusal last week to let such a suit proceed.
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April 11, 2024
The University of Tennessee Medical Center did not pay flight nurses and paramedics overtime wages when they worked over 40 hours a week and deducted meal breaks that they were still on duty during, a former flight nurse alleged in a proposed collective action in federal court.
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April 10, 2024
Counsel for two classes encompassing more than 30,000 current and former healthcare workers told a Washington state jury on Wednesday that Providence Health & Services should pay nearly $100 million in damages for using an illegal time clock rounding method that shortchanged employees and failing to provide required meal breaks.
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April 10, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice's argument for federal supremacy as grounds to deny immigrant detainees minimum wage in the workers' fray with detention operator GEO Group doesn't hold up to scrutiny, attorneys say, in a case that has helped shine a light on employee rights for those behind bars.
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April 10, 2024
UberBlack drivers urged a Pennsylvania federal judge not to require them to respond to Uber Technologies Inc.'s additional filing in an independent contractor dispute after the company already submitted a brief invoking Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken," saying Uber defied an order setting page limits.
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April 10, 2024
An Ohio federal judge ruled additional discovery is not necessary for a runner and server's unpaid wages suit, saying the former Ruth's Chris worker is trying to get a second bite at the apple for documents he was already unsuccessful in getting.
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April 10, 2024
Littler Mendelson PC brought on a shareholder who beefed up his practice serving as acting chief legal counsel to former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a role that now informs his work defending employers undergoing government investigations.