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June 28, 2024
The Supreme Court’s ruling Friday nixing the Chevron doctrine of deference to a federal agency's reasonable interpretation of a law could give the government a tougher time defending wage and hour rules in court, attorneys said. Here, Law360 explores the expected impact.
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June 28, 2024
A New York realty group secured early wins on all but one of a building superintendent's wage claims, with a New York federal judge ruling Friday the worker had provided scant evidence in support, but the group must face claims related to wage deficits caused by a time clock malfunction.
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June 28, 2024
A former copywriter must arbitrate her suit claiming that a media company misclassified her as an independent contractor because the agreement she signed delegates any arbitrability issues to an arbitrator, a Michigan federal judge ruled Friday.
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June 28, 2024
An Illinois federal judge conditionally certified a class of Curaleaf hourly employees in Illinois, Arizona and Massachusetts, but denied a bid to certify a nationwide class of all Curaleaf hourly employees "based on pure speculation," in a suit alleging managers at its cannabis dispensary locations around the country stole the contents of tip jars.
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June 28, 2024
Tesla Inc. laid off approximately 14,000 employees without giving them a fair warning required under both federal and California law, a former parts advisor alleges in a putative class action seeking back pay and penalties on the automotive company.
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June 28, 2024
A Texas-based commercial cleaning company can't force workers to add additional defendants to their lawsuit alleging the company used subcontractors to avoid paying overtime wages, a Colorado federal judge ruled, even if the company believes the workers are suing the wrong entity.
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June 28, 2024
This summer domestic workers in New Jersey will be entitled to breaks, while minors in Florida will be allowed to work longer hours. Here, Law360 explores these and other new wage and hour laws across the country that go into effect July 1.
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June 28, 2024
A concession stand company in Pittsburgh will pay $15,000 to end a U.S. Department of Labor suit alleging it threatened and retaliated against H-2B temporary workers during an agency probe into the company, according to papers filed Friday in Pennsylvania federal court.
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June 28, 2024
The owners and operator of a Georgia restaurant required waitresses to share their tips with workers not eligible to receive them and failed to pay overtime and minimum wage, two former employees said in a proposed collective action in federal court.
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June 28, 2024
Vedder Price has hired an employment litigator from Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP as a shareholder in its Chicago office, the firm announced Friday.
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June 28, 2024
A misclassification suit that went to the U.S. Supreme Court should stay out of arbitration, two food distributors told the Second Circuit, arguing that a slew of rulings supported their arguments that they should be considered transportation workers.
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June 28, 2024
Two surgical technicians and a hospital network settled a class action wage suit and asked a California federal judge to send the suit back to state court for final approval of the deal, where a related Private Attorneys General Act case has been pending.
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June 28, 2024
In a rare move, the U.S. Supreme Court will issue opinions into the beginning of July as the court tries to clear its merits docket of three remaining cases dealing with presidential immunity, whether governments can control social media platforms' content moderation policies and the appropriate deadline to challenge agency action.
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June 28, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned a decades-old precedent that instructed judges about when they could defer to federal agencies' interpretations of law in rulemaking, depriving courts of a commonly used analytic tool and leaving lots of questions about what comes next.
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June 27, 2024
Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. on Thursday agreed to pay a combined $175 million and provide drivers with a suite of benefits to settle an employee classification lawsuit brought by the state of Massachusetts.
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June 27, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday backed a Florida radiology practice's defeat of a doctor's lawsuit alleging he was fired because he requested medical leave, ruling a lower court didn't err when it blocked him from presenting evidence he hadn't previously disclosed.
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June 27, 2024
A power utility run by the City of Austin, Texas, can't dodge allegations that it purposely failed to pay a former customer service representative overtime premiums even though she regularly worked 50 hours a week, with a federal judge finding Thursday that she brought enough evidence to keep her claims in play.
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June 27, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor told a Texas federal court it included a minimum salary aspect in executive, administrative or professional rules since the Fair Labor Standards Act's inception, arguing a marketing firm doesn't have the basis to halt a final overtime rule.
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June 27, 2024
The owner of two adult care homes in Alabama will pay nearly $202,000 in back wages, damages and fines for denying workers their full wages, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Thursday.
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June 27, 2024
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP announced that a labor and employment attorney with more than 40 years of experience has joined the firm's Reno, Nevada, office as a partner.
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June 27, 2024
A Georgia school district agreed to pay nearly $114,000 to end a collective action accusing it of underpaying employees on overtime by failing to include a retention bonus when calculating their time-and-a-half rate, according to a motion to approve the deal filed in federal court.
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June 27, 2024
A former employee of a Texas-based steel fabrication and erection company supported his claims that his former employer owes him overtime, a Fifth Circuit panel ruled, affirming a lower court's decision awarding the worker more than $80,000.
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June 27, 2024
A Washington federal judge refused to certify an appeal to the Ninth Circuit concerning the lower court's decision to remand to state court a lawsuit alleging retailer Aaron's should have included pay ranges in job advertisements, saying that state court is the ideal venue to interpret state law.
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June 26, 2024
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which took effect one year ago Thursday, has brought about more pregnancy accommodations for workers without causing overwhelming compliance challenges for employers, attorneys on both sides of the bar say.
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June 26, 2024
A Colorado state jury on Wednesday found that a gas marketing company breached an employment agreement and violated the Colorado Wage Claim Act when it failed to pay a trading director a $3.3 million bonus from natural gas trades made during a historic 2021 winter storm.