June 26, 2023
A Virginia federal judge signed off on a $75,000 deal between USA Today and a former sports website editor ending her suit accusing the newspaper conglomerate of misclassifying editors as independent contractors and shorting their wages.
May 24, 2023
USA Today and a former sports website editor told a Virginia federal judge Wednesday that they had reached a settlement in the editor's suit accusing the newspaper conglomerate of misclassifying editors as independent contractors and depriving them of minimum wage and overtime pay.
April 17, 2023
The two-step Fair Labor Standards Act collective certification process is ungrounded in the text of the law and would lead to USA Today sports website editors receiving improper notice of a wage action, a Virginia federal judge ruled.
February 22, 2023
USA Today Sports Media Group called on a Virginia federal judge to reject a bid to conditionally certify a collective of editors who say they were misclassified as independent contractors, telling the court there was no indication that they all performed similar work.
December 09, 2022
A former site editor hit USA Today Sports Media Group LLC and its parent company Gannett Co. Inc. with a proposed collective action in Virginia federal court accusing the newspaper of wrongly classifying website editors as independent contractors and depriving them of minimum wage and overtime pay.