FUENTES v. JIFFY LUBE INTERNATIONAL, INC.

  1. September 15, 2023

    Jiffy Lube Worker's No-Poach Suit Sent To Arbitration

    A Pennsylvania federal judge ordered that a former Jiffy Lube employee must arbitrate his claims over the auto service center's past use of no-poach provisions, saying the employee failed to discredit affidavits showing that he received an arbitration agreement.

  2. June 13, 2023

    DOJ Pushes Back On Jiffy Lube's No-Poach Amicus Cite

    The U.S. Department of Justice took issue Monday with Jiffy Lube's use of an agency amicus brief, submitted in a different no-poach case, to argue for dismissal of a proposed class action targeting franchise contract provisions restricting hiring between different franchisees.

  3. April 20, 2023

    Jiffy Lube Says New Worker In No Poach Suit Has To Arbitrate

    Jiffy Lube has told a Pennsylvania federal court the former worker who recently took over a suit targeting the company's past use of no-poach provisions in its franchise contracts must arbitrate any claims related to his employment at the auto service center because he agreed to do so when he became an employee.

  4. March 16, 2023

    New Jiffy Lube Worker Allowed To Take Over No-Poach Case

    A Pennsylvania federal court has let a former Jiffy Lube employee intervene in a proposed class action over the auto service center's past use of no-poach provisions in its franchise agreements to represent workers who weren't covered by a previous settlement.

  5. September 26, 2022

    Jiffy Lube Fights Bid To Substitute No-Poach Plaintiff

    Jiffy Lube called for a Pennsylvania federal court to deny a bid from a former employee to intervene in a case over the service center's past use of no-poach provisions in its franchise agreements, claiming that the employee's attempt to sue was "too little, too late."

  6. July 25, 2022

    Jiffy Lube To Pay $2M To End Workers' No-Poach Policy Suit

    Jiffy Lube has agreed to pay $2 million to end a former worker's potential class action over the company's past use of no-poach provisions in franchise agreements in the Philadelphia area, the worker said in an uncontested bid for preliminary approval of the deal.

  7. February 25, 2022

    Jiffy Lube To Settle Class Action Over No-Poach Policy

    Jiffy Lube and a class of employees challenging the company's policy of prohibiting franchises from hiring anyone who had been employed by another Jiffy Lube location say they intend to settle the class action.

  8. May 19, 2020

    Jiffy Lube Looks To Trim No-Poach Suit Again

    Jiffy Lube has asked a Pennsylvania federal court to cut pieces of former workers' amended complaint over its past use of no-poach provisions in franchise agreements, saying the court had already tossed identical claims in a previous ruling.

  9. November 26, 2019

    Jiffy Lube Can't Slip Claims Over No-Poach Franchise Deals

    Jiffy Lube can't dip out of a proposed class action accusing the car maintenance chain of working no-poach clauses into its franchise agreements in violation of antitrust law just yet, but it did succeed at getting older claims lopped off by a Pennsylvania federal judge this week.

  10. August 15, 2019

    Where Franchise No-Poach Agreements Stand Today

    Washington state's attorney general is forging ahead with a campaign against no-poach provisions in franchise agreements, cutting deals last week with four more chains to eliminate the practice, but with few courts weighing in so far, it is unclear which legal standard for judging the provisions will prevail.