July 31, 2023
A California federal judge gave the initial OK to a settlement in which Amazon agreed to pay $950,000 to end proposed class claims that it did not cover home-based workers' internet expenses as required by state law following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
March 07, 2023
Workers cannot keep claiming as a class that Amazon failed to reimburse them for the internet expenses they incurred while working from home during the pandemic, a California federal judge ruled Tuesday, saying that the employees failed to show a common policy applied.
February 09, 2023
A California federal judge considering Amazon workers' bid to certify a class seeking Covid-related work-from-home internet expenses said Thursday he's "increasingly skeptical" of their case, questioning whether an appellate ruling concerning cellphone expenses applies since Amazon workers could go into the office and likely already had home internet.
July 06, 2022
Wage and hour litigation in the latter half of 2022 will break ground on issues of first impression, like the compensability of remote work expenses, and contend with foundational issues, such as what constitutes a salary and who should be considered an interstate transportation worker. Here are seven cases to keep an eye on.
June 01, 2022
An Amazon engineer can pursue a putative class action seeking to recoup expenses he incurred while working from home during the pandemic under California labor law, a federal judge ruled Wednesday in what the engineer's attorney characterized as a first-of-its-kind ruling.