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August 16, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for potential final approval of a $3.125 million settlement in a wage and hour class action against Liberty Mutual. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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August 16, 2024
An Ohio healthcare company and a nurse alleging it unlawfully deducted wages for meal breaks she was unable to take agreed to mediate her proposed collective overtime claims, according to court documents.
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August 16, 2024
Employment firm Jackson Lewis PC has expanded its roster this week with the additions of two attorneys with combined experience of more than 30 years to its offices in the Western Pennsylvania and Kansas City areas.
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August 16, 2024
A Pittsburgh photography studio cheated a former associate photographer of her wages after misclassifying her as an independent contractor, withheld her tipped wages and posted boudoir photos of her on social media without her consent, the photographer said in a suit in Pennsylvania state court.
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August 16, 2024
An attorney representing a grocery store in a former employee's unpaid-wages lawsuit is on the hook for more than $192,000 for deliberately prolonging the case for years, and must pay the court $10,000 for needlessly wasting its resources, a New York federal judge said.
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August 16, 2024
Proposals by former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris to eliminate federal taxes on tips for workers in at least some industries could intensify disputes regarding what counts as a tip and dampen the push to eliminate a tipped subminimum wage, attorneys said. Here, Law360 explores issues that could arise.
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August 16, 2024
A New York City hotel and hospitality workers' union are scheduled to appear before a New York federal judge for the first time as part of the hotel's lawsuit seeking to end ongoing agreements the union struck with a previous owner.
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August 16, 2024
While Connecticut workers may rejoice over a major expansion of paid sick leave that will begin to roll out next year, businesses will need to spend some time and effort getting ready to implement the new law, attorneys told Law360.
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August 15, 2024
A hospital system a California county created is a public entity that is not required to follow the California Labor Code's meal and rest break requirements, the state's high court ruled Thursday, nixing an appellate panel's ruling against the entity.
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August 15, 2024
The Fourth Circuit declined Thursday to reinstate a lawsuit two Nepalese-English interpreters brought against a government contractor accusing it of failing to pay them overtime wages, saying the Maryland laws they sued under don't apply to their case because they worked in Afghanistan.
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August 15, 2024
Detention center employees urged a North Carolina federal court to reject a sheriff's office's bid to toss their wage and hour class action, saying its argument that it pays workers in line with federal regulations for employees whose hours change weekly doesn't apply to them.
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August 15, 2024
A Georgia federal judge shot down a deal to end a former Sysco employee's proposed collective action claiming the company failed to pay warehouse workers' overtime, saying the settlement must reflect the "active participation" of the other workers involved in the suit.
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August 15, 2024
Two legal services organizations told the U.S. Supreme Court that holding employers to a higher standard to prove their employees are overtime-exempt would break a legislative balance and clash with federal law, backing an international food distributor's challenge to a Fourth Circuit ruling.
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August 15, 2024
A Virginia-based home healthcare company will pay nearly $1.5 million to end a U.S. Department of Labor suit alleging it denied workers their overtime wages, according to court papers.
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August 15, 2024
Assistant branch managers hold executive duties and are therefore exempt from earning overtime, Enterprise told a Massachusetts federal court in its bid to dodge a former worker's lawsuit alleging the car-rental company wrongly misclassified him as overtime-exempt, which resulted in him missing out on extra pay.
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August 15, 2024
An international food distributor told the U.S. Supreme Court that subjecting employers to a higher standard in order to claim that certain workers are overtime-exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act would have serious ramifications in employment law, urging the justices to follow Congress' directions.
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August 14, 2024
Four Republican-led states defended Kroger's proposed $25 billion acquisition of Albertsons in an amicus brief Wednesday, telling the Oregon federal judge overseeing the Federal Trade Commission's challenge to the deal that blocking it would actually "weaken, not protect, competition."
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August 14, 2024
A former Navistar employee can pursue wage claims against the manufacturer for allegedly mishandling meal breaks and shift differentials when calculating her pay, but she'll need to beef up allegations regarding protective gear to pursue those in the suit, an Illinois federal judge said Tuesday.
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August 14, 2024
A Michigan federal judge chided a Detroit strip club's lawyer Wednesday for trying to parse whether a dancer's name was "normal" or sounded like a stage name, saying the question had no bearing on whether the club waited too long to try to force her wage claims into arbitration.
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August 14, 2024
A Nevada federal magistrate judge has struck two blows against a home healthcare staffing executive facing criminal charges of fixing nurses' wages and hiding that probe when selling the business for $12.5 million, as the judge refused to break up the allegations and recommended against dismissing the fraud counts.
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August 14, 2024
An Ohio state appeals court declined to rule on a union's appeal in its suit over whether the state's prevailing wage law pertains to the construction of a college dormitory by a public university because the union sued in the wrong county, avoiding deciding a matter of first impression.
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August 14, 2024
An energy company's environmental, health and safety specialist's overtime suit must head back to the Texas federal court that ruled the worker wasn't overtime-exempt, a Fifth Circuit panel ruled, following a separate circuit panel's decision tackling what constitutes a salary.
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August 14, 2024
A Seventh Circuit decision in a forced labor suit against the Salvation Army highlights how, when a work relationship falls outside traditional employment paradigms, perceptions of the parties at issue drive the legal outcome, attorneys say.
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August 14, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor exceeded its authority by instituting a new rule that increases salary thresholds for overtime exemptions for administrative, executive and professional employees, a Christian schools association said in a new lawsuit filed in Tennessee federal court that seeks to block the regulation.
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August 14, 2024
A West Palm Beach, Florida, law firm has asked a federal judge to dismiss a former paralegal's wage and retaliation suit, arguing her independent contractor status and failure to report unpaid work make her claims unviable.