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September 03, 2024
Retailer Aaron's urged a Washington state court to throw out a job applicant's proposed class action accusing it of failing to post salary ranges in job advertisements, saying the worker's 15 other similar lawsuits show he had no interest in actually getting a job at the company.
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September 03, 2024
The work H-2A visa workers performed for a turf farm doesn't represent the agricultural work that would be exempt from overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act, a Missouri federal judge ruled Tuesday, handing the workers a partial win in their overtime suit.
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September 03, 2024
A New Jersey law strengthening protections for temporary workers will stay in place because halting it would create more harm than good, a New Jersey federal judge ruled, turning down a renewed bid by staffing industry associations to pull the emergency brake on the law.
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September 03, 2024
Duane Morris LLP is asking a California federal court to toss most of the claims in a proposed class action alleging the firm systemically underpaid female and nonwhite attorneys, saying the attorney who filed the complaint has been fairly treated and compensated and her claims lack validity.
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September 03, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor urged a New Mexico federal court to throw out a trucking company's lawsuit that seeks to block the agency's new rule for classifying independent contractors, saying the company failed to show it is affected by the regulations.
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September 03, 2024
A landscaping company in Texas paid nearly $104,000 in back wages for misclassifying dozens of workers, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Tuesday.
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September 03, 2024
A language interpretation and translation services company will shell out $2.7 million to about 1,500 workers who accused the entity in California federal court of unpaid wages, putting to rest claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Private Attorneys General Act.
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September 03, 2024
A New York federal judge declined to grant class certification to a former employee in his suit accusing a discount retailer of incorrectly classifying him and other managers as overtime-exempt, saying he failed to show there was a company-wide policy requiring these workers to perform nonmanagerial work.
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September 03, 2024
Voters this fall will consider ballot questions asking them to pass laws raising the minimum wage and expanding rights to sick leave and collective bargaining, potentially kicking off litigation that will give courts a chance to weigh in.
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August 31, 2024
Outgoing U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission member Keith Sonderling told Law360 in an exclusive interview that elevating the agency's visibility on the artificial intelligence front and reviving the U.S. Department of Labor's use of opinion letters rank among his top accomplishments during his nearly decadelong stint in federal government.
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August 30, 2024
The Third Circuit said Friday it doesn't have jurisdiction over a pipeline company's challenge to a discovery order limited to the issue of the arbitrability of two pipeline inspectors' wage claims, ruling that the challenged order isn't appealable under the Federal Arbitration Act.
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August 30, 2024
This week a New York federal judge will consider attempts from the operators of Four Seasons Hotel New York to toss a class action that claims the hotel violated state and federal law by furloughing them without notice.
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August 30, 2024
A former Dominguez Chiropractic employee hit the Atlanta-area chain with a Fair Labor Standards Act complaint Friday, alleging that it knowingly failed to pay her for overtime and unlawfully retaliated when she complained.
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August 30, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for the potential final approval of a $5.2 million deal in a wage and hour class action against Walmart alleging the retail giant failed to pay for time workers spent in COVID-19 health screenings. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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August 30, 2024
This fall Alabama is set to increase penalties for child labor violations, and Maryland will expand its pay transparency requirements. Here, Law360 explores these and other state and local wage and hour developments attorneys should know.
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August 30, 2024
The Seventh Circuit said it would take up a midsuit appeal from Eli Lilly challenging a lower court's ruling granting collective certification to a sales representative in her age discrimination lawsuit, backpedaling from an order in July that declined to take up the dispute because of its incomplete record.
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August 30, 2024
A Georgia federal judge denied the U.S. Department of Labor's request to reconsider a preliminary injunction blocking a new rule aimed at improving pay and conditions for foreign farmworkers, ruling that its arguments to have the order more narrowly tailored were "far too little too late."
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August 30, 2024
With the Fifth Circuit striking down a federal rule on tipped wages, restaurants may be ready to rejoice, but attorneys say employers still need to check whether their state and local laws impose strict obligations and should retrain staff on servers' duties. Here, Law30 looks at three recommendations from industry attorneys as restaurants face new terrain when it comes to workers and tips.
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August 30, 2024
Campbell Soup Co. incorrectly classified distributors as independent contractors, causing them to lose out on certain employee benefits such as overtime wages, while stripping them of their promised authority, a proposed class action filed in New York federal court said.
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August 29, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor and a Mississippi fishery asked a federal judge on Thursday to sign off on a settlement in a suit accusing the fishery of interfering with a DOL wage investigation by threatening to physically harm workers and have them deported if they cooperated, referring to the claims in the deal as a "misunderstanding."
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August 29, 2024
A class of pilots accusing American Airlines of violating the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 by denying pay for time spent on military leave can't seek liquidated damages, given a lack of evidence that the airline knew it was breaking the law, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Thursday.
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August 29, 2024
A Georgia school district has agreed to settle a lawsuit with a bus driver who alleged she was forced to work practically without pay for three months after the district docked her wages to recoup the workers' compensation benefits she had received, according to a notice filed Wednesday.
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August 29, 2024
The Fifth Circuit refused Wednesday to revive a welding inspector's claim that a company he performed work for violated federal labor law by refusing to pay him wages and overtime, ruling in a published opinion that the inspector's claim failed since he wasn't an employee but an independent contractor.
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August 29, 2024
The Ninth Circuit refused Thursday to grant two aviation companies' request for a full-court rehearing in their challenge to an order that declined to send an airplane fuel pumper's lawsuit over unpaid wages to arbitration, leaving in place its July ruling that the case must be litigated in court.
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August 29, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission is sparring with Kroger over where, and when, to handle the grocery giant's constitutional counterattack to the FTC's merger challenge, with the agency teeing up a bid to move the company's Ohio federal court suit to Oregon, where it's defending the proposed Albertsons purchase.