Several legal fights that will dominate the rest of 2024 are variations on the debate around who has the power to make and change laws and who is considered an employee, with the cases challenging the breadth of the U.S. Department of Labor's rulemaking authority in the spotlight. Here, Law360 looks at seven cases to watch in the year's latter half.
A U.S. Department of Labor final rule raising salary thresholds for overtime exemptions is now in effect, but attorneys are waiting on updates for the U.S. territories after the federal government abandoned such proposed changes. Here, Law360 explores the territories overtime issue.
Amateurism can't shield the NCAA from student-athletes' Fair Labor Standards Act claims, the Third Circuit ruled Thursday, laying out a test to sort out whether athletes can be considered employees under the federal statute.
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Several legal fights that will dominate the rest of 2024 are variations on the debate around who has the power to make and change laws and who is considered an employee, with the cases challenging the breadth of the U.S. Department of Labor's rulemaking authority in the spotlight. Here, Law360 looks at seven cases to watch in the year's latter half.
A U.S. Department of Labor final rule raising salary thresholds for overtime exemptions is now in effect, but attorneys are waiting on updates for the U.S. territories after the federal government abandoned such proposed changes. Here, Law360 explores the territories overtime issue.
Amateurism can't shield the NCAA from student-athletes' Fair Labor Standards Act claims, the Third Circuit ruled Thursday, laying out a test to sort out whether athletes can be considered employees under the federal statute.
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July 15, 2024
A California federal judge has rebuked both sides of a suit alleging Twitter violated federal labor laws amid a mass layoff in late 2022, ordering lead attorneys to attend a meet and confer session in August to work through ongoing conflicts that have arisen since the claims were filed in April 2023.
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July 15, 2024
A class and collective of emergency medical services workers asked a North Carolina federal court for summary judgment in their overtime suit against a county, arguing basic math proves employees were underpaid in violation of an ordinance.
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July 15, 2024
Chase Bank encouraged workers to perform off-the-clock work but failed to pay them accordingly, while also giving them so much work that they were forced to take their meals at their desks, a former employee said in a suit in California state court.
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July 15, 2024
An HVAC company has agreed to pay $850,000 to settle an ex-technician's proposed class action alleging meal break and wage violations, according to a bid for preliminary approval filed in Washington state court.
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July 15, 2024
A worker-finding platform and a staffing company said the City of Denver and its auditor office don't have the authority to investigate wage and hour violations, telling a Colorado federal court that their overreach could lead to hefty penalties.
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July 15, 2024
A bakery in New York City's Harlem neighborhood violated federal labor law by firing a worker who complained about issues workers had with tips and scheduling at the shop, a National Labor Relations Board judge has ruled, rejecting the bakery's argument that the worker quit.
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July 15, 2024
Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced Monday that it has brought on a five-member team of labor and employment lawyers who previously practiced with Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP.
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July 15, 2024
A Michigan school staffing firm has agreed to pay employees double their overtime rate to settle a lawsuit alleging the company denied workers overtime wages, according to a filing Monday, resolving a proposed collective and class action lawsuit that an ex-security guard and support worker filed earlier this year.
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July 15, 2024
A renewable energy company in Puerto Rico owes nearly $239,000 for denying more than 1,000 solar panel and system installers their full overtime pay, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Monday.
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July 15, 2024
Amazon properly moved to arbitrate in districts where drivers accusing the e-commerce giant of misclassifying them as independent contractors agreed to arbitrate their claims, the company told a Washington federal judge, urging the court to deny the workers' request for an injunction.
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July 15, 2024
A customer support services company agreed to pay out $3 million to end a U.S. Department of Labor suit in Florida federal court claiming it misclassified thousands of workers as independent contractors.
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July 15, 2024
A senior living center in Wisconsin will pay $30,000 to end a U.S. Department of Labor suit alleging it denied workers their full wages, according to court documents.
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July 15, 2024
A trio of U.S. Supreme Court rulings this term that dulled administrative agencies' power are likely to make an impact on how the U.S. Department of Labor enforces wage and hour law. Here, Law360 reviews six cases where their application is already becoming a point of contention.
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July 15, 2024
A veteran employment litigator has joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in New York after nearly 16 years at Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP.
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July 12, 2024
Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2024, our list of 158 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.
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July 12, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor told the Fifth Circuit that it need not consider the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision scrapping Chevron deference in a lawsuit restaurant groups filed combating a rule affecting tipped workers, saying it has no impact on the case.
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July 12, 2024
The Ninth Circuit revived and sent back to lower court a suit seeking pay from a call center for minutes that workers spent booting up their computers before their shifts, ruling it is still disputed whether the preshift work was too brief and administratively difficult to track.
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July 12, 2024
Even after Thursday's Third Circuit ruling clearing a path for college athletes to be considered employees, experts say the NCAA's record of litigating to the hilt on other athletes' rights matters portends a long road ahead before the issue is clarified.
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July 12, 2024
In this week's Off The Bench, the Third Circuit enlivens the debate over whether college athletes can be considered employees, the Fifth Circuit is skeptical of Brett Favre's defamation suit and the NFL disputes claims of racism.
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July 12, 2024
A staffing agency misclassified customer service agents as independent contractors and failed to pay them for all the hours they worked, according to a proposed class and collective action filed in Colorado federal court.
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July 12, 2024
A Colorado gas marketing company has urged a state judge to find a former trading director forfeited his right to collect a $3.3 million bonus because it was the result of risky and unauthorized trading, according to a motion asking the court to toss a jury's damages award.
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July 12, 2024
A California restaurant paid nearly $83,000 in back wages, damages and fines for denying workers their full wages, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Friday.
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July 12, 2024
A California federal judge tossed proposed class action claims that American Airlines interrupted meal breaks, skimped on overtime wages and required off-the-clock work, leaving a chance for their revival while axing permanently a former worker's individual claims because of an individual settlement agreement, according to court records.
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July 12, 2024
A New York federal judge refused to reconsider a decision tossing workers' claims that a packaging supplies manufacturer provided them with inaccurate wage statements for lack of standing, but he agreed to send the standing question to the Second Circuit.
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July 12, 2024
The first half of 2024 in Washington courts was punctuated by a fizzled startup's $72 million trial win against The Boeing Co., and Monsanto Co.'s appellate reversal of a $185 million verdict in one of a series of high-profile PCB poisoning cases. Here is a closer look at some of the biggest decisions in Washington state and federal courts in the first half of 2024.