February 28, 2024
Au pair agency Cultural Care has waived any claimed right to pursue arbitration in a proposed collective wage complaint by extensively litigating the case for several years, including a trip to the First Circuit, a Massachusetts federal judge concluded Wednesday.
February 22, 2024
A Massachusetts federal judge on Thursday twice lobbed the phrase "judge shopping" at lawyers for an au pair placement agency that, four years into a proposed collective wage action by former child care workers, now want the case sent to arbitration in Switzerland.
June 21, 2023
Attorneys for a proposed collective of au pairs seeking unpaid overtime wages were within their First Amendment rights to set up a website advertising the case, as a Massachusetts federal judge ruled that the site was one-sided but not misleading.
August 13, 2021
An au pair agency will not be able to escape facing claims it underpaid a proposed class of child care workers, after a Massachusetts federal judge Friday rebuffed the company's argument that it is required to follow only federal labor laws.
March 23, 2021
An au pair agency hit back at allegations that it owes back pay to a proposed class of child care workers, telling a Massachusetts federal judge that it's not bound by state labor requirements as an administrator of a federal cultural exchange program.
October 15, 2020
A Massachusetts-based au pair company is lying to its host families in order to drive up its own fees and underpay its workers in New York and California, one of the au pairs said Thursday in a proposed class action complaint.