April 19, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for a potential ruling on whether a class of hotel banquet event workers can continue together with wage claims against San Francisco Hilton Inc., in a long-running case that paid a visit to the Ninth Circuit. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
January 31, 2024
A Hilton hotel in San Francisco has failed to produce "responsive and highly relevant" documents during discovery in a suit accusing the hotel operator of pocketing tips meant for banquet servers, workers said in a motion to impose sanctions filed in California federal court Wednesday.
December 05, 2023
A California federal judge will not allow Hilton Management LLC to immediately appeal his decision preserving claims that the hotel operator pocketed tips bound for banquet servers, ruling Tuesday that another court would not likely rule that service fees charged to customers weren't tips.
August 09, 2023
A California federal judge will continue overseeing banquet servers' long-running challenge to a San Francisco Hilton's tipping policy even though the lawsuit no longer contains federal law claims, saying he's exercising supplemental jurisdiction over the remaining state law claim after "substantial work" was invested in the nearly decade-old case.