October 18, 2023
A manufacturing firm reasonably believed it was lawful to require employees to change into safety gear and shower before and after work without pay, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled in an order declining to tack $22 million in liquidated damages onto an unpaid wage verdict.
May 10, 2023
A federal jury in Pennsylvania handed up a $22 million verdict in favor of the U.S. Department of Labor, representing 7,500 workers who claimed in a Fair Labor Standards Act suit that East Penn Manufacturing Co. Inc. denied them overtime pay.
March 30, 2023
A Pennsylvania federal judge limited evidence in a suit by the U.S. Department of Labor seeking to recover workers' unpaid wages from a battery company, saying the evidence the agency wanted to admit is extraneous and would only waste time and energy and confuse the jury.
February 13, 2023
A Pennsylvania federal judge slammed the U.S. Department of Labor on Monday for including temporary workers in a list of employees for whom it's seeking unpaid wages from a battery company, saying the now five-year-old suit is "stuck in a time-warp" less than a month before trial.
April 20, 2022
A Pennsylvania federal judge denied U.S. Labor Secretary Martin J. Walsh's bid for sanctions Wednesday in a case alleging that a battery company shorted workers for the time they spend showering and changing in and out of protective uniforms, slamming the sanctions request for being "ambushlike" and belated.
August 19, 2021
A Pennsylvania battery company must pay workers for the time they spend putting on and taking off protective uniforms and showering, a federal judge ruled, though a jury must still decide if the difference between the estimated time the company paid for and the actual time spent was so little as to be meaningless.