May 13, 2022
A Pennsylvania federal judge has approved a $290,000 settlement brokered between a group of researchers and a background check screening company, resolving their suit alleging that the company did not pay them for the time it took to log on to their computers before their shifts.
January 31, 2022
Researchers for a background screening company can continue to be a collective in their suit claiming that time spent booting up their computers before work is compensable, but won't be able to be a class under state law, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Monday.
January 14, 2022
A background screening company can't shut down researchers' claims that time they spent logging in to their computers before their shifts is compensable, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled, applying for the first time a Tenth Circuit precedent.