Policy experts Nina Mast and Reed Shaw are calling on the U.S. Department of Labor to issue new regulations on child labor in order to address higher rates of violations, injuries and school absenteeism, particularly in light of state efforts to roll back protections. Here, Law360 speaks with Mast and Shaw about why the DOL should take the lead on boosting child labor protections.
Voters in a half dozen states from coast to coast will weigh ballot measures addressing minimum wage, tipped subminimum wage and paid sick leave on Election Day.
A California federal judge refused Monday to certify a 6,000-member class of Target workers who accused the company of placing unlawful restrictions on their 15-minute rest periods, finding there were too many variations in practices across the retail stores.
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Policy experts Nina Mast and Reed Shaw are calling on the U.S. Department of Labor to issue new regulations on child labor in order to address higher rates of violations, injuries and school absenteeism, particularly in light of state efforts to roll back protections. Here, Law360 speaks with Mast and Shaw about why the DOL should take the lead on boosting child labor protections.
Voters in a half dozen states from coast to coast will weigh ballot measures addressing minimum wage, tipped subminimum wage and paid sick leave on Election Day.
A California federal judge refused Monday to certify a 6,000-member class of Target workers who accused the company of placing unlawful restrictions on their 15-minute rest periods, finding there were too many variations in practices across the retail stores.
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October 30, 2024
The Seventh Circuit declined Wednesday to upend tradespeople's $200,000 win in their lawsuit accusing a staffing firm of failing to pay for time spent traveling between job sites, saying the workers were owed compensation because they had to make these commutes during their normal working hours.
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October 30, 2024
Southwest Airlines urged a California federal judge to disassemble a nearly 3,000-member class of workers who say the company violated federal law by failing to pay them for short stints of military leave, saying new evidence shows there are too many individualized issues to warrant class treatment.
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October 30, 2024
U.S. citizens and H-2B landscape workers who claimed that a company cheated them out of overtime pay can keep their collective status while also proceeding in three separate classes, a Kansas federal judge ruled.
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October 30, 2024
A cleaning services company in South Carolina will pay about $53,000 for misclassifying dozens of workers as independent contractors, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Wednesday.
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October 30, 2024
A Nevada jury awarded a former Wynn Las Vegas cocktail server about $321,000 in damages from her claim that the casino resort operator interfered with her Family and Medical Leave Act rights, but didn't side with the worker on her discrimination allegation.
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October 30, 2024
A New York federal judge refused to sign off on a $36,000 deal that would resolve a former oil field worker's suit alleging Hess Corp. failed to pay him overtime, saying the worker's attorneys are requesting too large of a share.
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October 30, 2024
Amazon didn't pay warehouse workers for the time they spent undergoing security and coronavirus screenings, while also requiring the workers to clock out to go to the bathroom, two former employees said in a proposed 10,000-member class action in New York federal court.
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October 30, 2024
A Phoenix drywall company failed to pay workers a premium rate for overtime work, the U.S. Department of Labor told an Arizona federal court.
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October 29, 2024
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. "chronically" understaffed its shifts, which led employees to have to work through their breaks, and then instructed them to log their rest periods even though they didn't get to enjoy them, a proposed class action recently removed to California federal court said.
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October 29, 2024
U.S. Department of Labor acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su unlawfully holds her position and therefore can't lodge an overtime suit against a Los Angeles-based household appliance company, the retailer said, urging a California federal court to toss the lawsuit.
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October 29, 2024
Legislation proposed by two New York City Council members that would require letting workers use sick leave to care for pets and service animals is an unprecedented move and an acknowledgment of the rising importance employees place on mental health, experts say.
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October 29, 2024
A former development director for a North Carolina city urged the Fourth Circuit to rethink its opinion affirming the city's win on her unpaid overtime claims, saying it's not clear from the record that she was classified as exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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October 29, 2024
A Fifth Circuit panel misinterpreted the Fair Labor Standards Act when it ruled that the U.S. Department of Labor could spike the salary thresholds in an overtime exemption, a Dairy Queen franchise owner said, urging the full appeals court to step in.
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October 29, 2024
Red Bull escaped a former account service manager's proposed collective action, alleging she didn't receive overtime and was immediately fired upon requesting a Family Medical Leave Act leave, after the parties acknowledged to a South Carolina federal court that arbitration was necessary.
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October 29, 2024
Military reservists are owed top-up pay if they're called to serve during a war or national emergency, regardless of whether they're directly serving in those events, a U.S. Coast Guard reservist told the U.S. Supreme Court.
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October 28, 2024
The California Supreme Court on Monday held that an appellate court got it wrong by determining a timeliness requirement doesn't apply when a party alleges that a judge is disqualified due to bias, in a case that resulted in a $43.5 million judgment for hundreds of title company employees.
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October 28, 2024
A Massachusetts federal judge sentenced the owner of a Boston pizzeria to 8½ years in prison after a jury in June convicted him for using physical abuse and threats of violence and deportation to control hourly foreign workers who lacked work authorization.
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October 28, 2024
A California federal judge on Monday greenlighted a $500,000 settlement to resolve part-time models' class action accusing a marketing firm of unlawfully denying them meal and rest periods, wrapping up six-year-long litigation that hit a number of hurdles.
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October 28, 2024
A field technician is seeking sanctions from a Utah federal court for a security system sales company that he said disregarded an order requiring approval before contacting potential opt-ins to his proposed Fair Labor Standards Act collective action against the company.
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October 28, 2024
A producer of electronic and fiber optic connectors has agreed to shell out $2.5 million to end a proposed class and collective action in New York federal court alleging unpaid overtime after rounding down technicians' hours, according to a filing by employees.
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October 28, 2024
A healthcare company that provides services within correctional facilities will pay more than $94,000 to end a proposed class action alleging it shorted workers on wages after its Kronos payroll system was hacked in December 2021, according to a court filing in New Mexico federal court.
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October 28, 2024
A California appeals court refused to send to arbitration a farm laborer's suit accusing a farm labor contractor of shorting workers on wages, saying the company can't rely on an arbitration pact that one of its clients signed with the workers.
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October 25, 2024
A former Venture Global executive has sued the U.S. natural gas company in Virginia federal court for allegedly breaching a decades-old stock option agreement, claiming the company's co-founders refused to let her exercise millions of dollars' worth of soon-to-expire options, then fired her for complaining.
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October 25, 2024
Lyft Inc. will pay $2.1 million and clarify its claims about driver pay in order to settle allegations from the Federal Trade Commission that the ride-hailing company made deceptive statements about what drivers could expect to earn hourly and through special incentives, according to a Friday announcement from the agency.
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October 25, 2024
Massachusetts' intermediate-level appeals court on Friday invalidated an arbitrator's denial of tenure to a teacher who took maternity leave during one of her first three years of teaching, ruling that the decision had wrongly penalized her for taking the protected time away from work.