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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.
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October 25, 2024
Amazon said that 17 named plaintiffs in an eight-year suit accusing the online retail giant of misclassifying drivers as independent contractors failed to meet discovery demands, urging a Washington federal judge to order them to fulfill the requests within 10 days.
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October 25, 2024
Convenience store company Circle K failed to pay workers overtime wages and provide them with meal and rest periods, the workers alleged Friday in California state court.
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October 25, 2024
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP has hired Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.'s chief employment counsel to help strengthen the firm's national labor and employment practice and its entertainment bench.
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October 25, 2024
Elon Musk and X Corp. have urged a California federal court not to acquiesce to former executives' request to open discovery in their severance benefits lawsuit, saying the workers can't show they've been harmed by the court's decision to pause discovery until after ruling on a dismissal motion.
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October 25, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor's recently released guidance on artificial intelligence in the workplace shows how employers will have to ensure that any technology they incorporate is vetted to align with wage and hour compliance obligations, attorneys say.
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October 25, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for potential final approval of a $5.5 million settlement in a COVID-19 screening class action against Amazon. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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October 25, 2024
A field service representative and the retail support provider he sued claiming unpaid overtime told a North Carolina federal court that they settled a Fair Labor Standards Act collective suit.
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October 25, 2024
A Kentucky federal judge greenlighted a class of truck drivers in a suit alleging that a trucking company failed to pay them overtime, rejecting the employer's argument that some of the workers were engaged in interstate commerce and thus were ineligible to earn overtime compensation.
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October 24, 2024
A California federal judge considering class certification for nearly 1,300 Chili's employees, who are accusing the owner of their restaurants of not providing meal breaks, said Thursday that individualized questions about whether workers were coerced into asserting they voluntarily skipped their break could doom their bid.
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October 24, 2024
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Thursday it is taking action to protect consumers from "unchecked surveillance" in the labor force, issuing guidance that warns companies to get consent from workers when using algorithmic hiring scores or other outside profiling data for employment purposes.
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October 24, 2024
An Illinois federal judge dismissed a former dancer's lawsuit accusing a Chicago strip club of misclassifying her as an independent contractor, saying an arbitration pact is valid despite the worker's argument that her sexual harassment claims mandate her case be kept in court.
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October 24, 2024
The Second Circuit’s clarification that “mathematical precision” isn’t required to survive dismissal bids in overtime suits has seemed to lead to fewer such motions in the year since the ruling, but a path remains to defeating those claims, attorneys said.
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October 24, 2024
A New Mexico federal judge on Thursday granted a joint request to end a dispute between a worker, an oil and gas company he accused of misclassifying him as an independent contractor and an intervening staffing company.
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October 24, 2024
A former Walmart manager can't prove that the company misclassified her as a manager to avoid paying her overtime, the company argued in Georgia federal court, challenging a magistrate judge's conclusion that the manager adequately supported her claims and urging the district judge to toss the suit.
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October 24, 2024
A federal judge on Thursday refused to throw out a U.S. Department of Labor lawsuit alleging that the former owner of an Albany, New York, restaurant intimidated two workers to dissuade them from participating in a wage theft class action, saying a jury should weigh in.
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October 24, 2024
An Illinois federal judge agreed Thursday to toll the statute of limitations for call center workers claiming that AT&T failed to pay them overtime, one day after the workers said extraordinary circumstances required tolling.
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October 24, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor urged a Georgia federal court to uphold its new protections for foreign H-2A farmworkers, arguing that conservative-led states' bid to block its rule should fail because safeguarding foreign workers is key to ensuring better pay and conditions for American-born farmworkers.
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October 24, 2024
Four freelance writers will ask the Eleventh Circuit to look at their case challenging the U.S. Department of Labor's final rule determining whether workers are independent contractors under federal law, appealing a Georgia federal court decision.
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October 23, 2024
A New Jersey hibachi restaurant struck a $500,000 settlement with five former servers to resolve their lawsuit alleging the company did not pay them any wages and deducted money from their tips, which was their only source of income, according to a filing in federal court.
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October 23, 2024
The full Ninth Circuit said Wednesday it won't reconsider a panel's ruling that it wasn't clear whether a group of San Francisco city nurses in two consolidated cases were paid on a salary basis and could therefore be considered overtime-exempt.
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October 23, 2024
A new law enshrining the principle of intersectionality in California's anti-discrimination statutes may lead to ripple effects in equal pay litigation and discourse, attorneys say, as courts will be more inclined to recognize that unequal pay can be driven by a combination of factors.
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October 23, 2024
A group of college athletes has agreed to stay its suit seeking a cut of NCAA television revenue in Colorado federal court, with a magistrate judge on Wednesday granting the two parties' request to pause the case while the landmark name, image and likeness settlement in a separate California case awaits approval.