February 24, 2023
A deal requiring sponsorship agencies to pay $65.5 million to au pairs for wages they skimped on doesn't stop a couple of au pairs from lodging trafficking claims against a family they worked for, a Colorado judge has found.
August 01, 2019
A recent Tenth Circuit ruling won't disturb a $65.5 million deal approved two weeks ago that resolved a class action accusing several sponsorship agencies for au pairs of colluding to suppress childcare workers' wages, including almost $23 million in fees for class counsel, a Colorado federal judge said Thursday.
January 09, 2019
Several sponsorship agencies for au pairs have agreed to a $65.5 million deal in Colorado federal court that would settle allegations in a class action alleging that they colluded to suppress the child care workers' wages.
November 20, 2018
A group of agencies that sponsor au pairs to come to the United States has settled class action claims they colluded to suppress the childcare workers' wages, a Colorado federal judge said Tuesday.
October 17, 2018
Au pair sponsoring agencies gearing up for trial over allegations in a collective action they colluded to set low pay rates told a Colorado federal court Tuesday that a recent U.S. government filing in a related case debunks the former au pairs' central theory that the weekly stipend is illegally low.
June 19, 2018
A Colorado federal judge refused Tuesday to enter judgment for former au pairs or the sponsoring agencies they accuse of colluding to set low pay rates in a Fair Labor Standards Act collective action, concluding that too many factual disputes remain to close out the case.
May 10, 2018
Au pair sponsoring agencies urged a Colorado federal judge to decertify the litigation accusing them of colluding to set low pay rates as a Fair Labor Standards Act collective action, arguing that the au pair program is not a typical employment situation.
April 05, 2018
Nearly half of 22 au pairs inadequately replied to discovery requests they were given after joining a class action accusing visa sponsoring agencies of conspiring to set low pay rates, while the other half failed to respond at all, one of the sponsoring agencies alleged in Colorado federal court Wednesday.
March 27, 2018
A Colorado federal judge on Tuesday affirmed a magistrate judge's order denying a bid by au pair companies to exclude the testimony of an expert offered by tens of thousands of au pairs accusing the companies of conspiring to set unreasonably low pay rates, saying the order was proper.
March 19, 2018
Several au pair companies on Friday in Colorado federal court pushed back at a bid to find them liable for some claims in a suit alleging they conspired to set unreasonably low pay rates for au pairs, saying that state and local wage laws don't apply to them.