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August 23, 2024
A former Reed Smith LLP attorney suing the firm for gender discrimination has told a New Jersey state court that the firm must turn over pay data for nonequity partners stretching back years for her to make her case.
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August 23, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission's highly anticipated hearing to block Albertsons' planned $24.6 billion merger with Kroger kicks off Monday in a Portland, Oregon, courtroom in what attorneys say will be a pivotal test of the Biden administration's newly formalized merger policy.
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August 23, 2024
The Fifth Circuit struck down a U.S. Department of Labor rule on tipped wages, saying it goes against the Fair Labor Standards Act and is therefore arbitrary and capricious.
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August 23, 2024
A Georgia federal judge has, for the second time, refused to sign off on a settlement that would've ended a suit between a corporate office furnisher and a fired employee, finding the plaintiff's counsel's proposed hourly rate for attorney fees "far exceeds" reasonableness.
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August 23, 2024
A group of workers for a screw pile engineering company urged the full Fifth Circuit to rehear their case alleging they were unlawfully stiffed on overtime wages, saying a panel used the wrong standard when determining their duties fell under the Motor Carrier Act's overtime exemption.
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August 23, 2024
A healthcare system automatically deducted 30 minutes per day from workers' wages for meal breaks despite the workers not getting the chance to take uninterrupted meal periods, a proposed collective action filed in Michigan federal court said.
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August 23, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for the potential final sign-off on a $4 million deal to resolve a wage and hour class action against Arthur J. Gallagher Service Co. LLC. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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August 22, 2024
The Ninth Circuit on Thursday revived a class action alleging Alaska Airlines illegally denied accrued vacation and sick time to pilots on military assignments, saying the case now has the benefit of a decision from the court in a similar case involving the airline.
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August 22, 2024
A California state appeals court refused to ship to arbitration a worker's lawsuit accusing a staffing agency of unlawfully miscalculating his sick leave wages, saying the arbitration pact he signed promised that all Private Attorneys General Act claims will be litigated in court.
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August 22, 2024
Hormel Foods Corp. and two meat processing plants have agreed to a $13.5 million settlement in a Colorado wage-fixing suit, joining a host of companies that have reached deals to end claims that they colluded to depress wages.
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August 22, 2024
A metal finisher cannot snag collective certification in her wage suit under the Fifth Circuit's standard, a Wisconsin federal judge ruled, departing for the first time from the two-step method to certify collectives that courts have long used.
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August 22, 2024
A Fourth Circuit opinion affirming that Maryland's wage laws don't extend to workers in Afghanistan who were hired by a Maryland company portends continued tricky legal challenges for employers managing a remote workforce, attorneys say.
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August 22, 2024
A Mexican restaurant with multiple locations in Pennsylvania will pay $88,000 in back wages, damages and fines to end a U.S. Department of Labor suit alleging it denied workers their full tips and wages, according to federal court papers filed Thursday.
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August 22, 2024
The state of Michigan is seeking clarification from its high court on how to calculate the new minimum wage, saying there were several possible interpretations of the court's recent directive to account for inflation in the wage floor.
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August 22, 2024
A California federal judge refused to send to arbitration a class action accusing a tech staffing company of underpaying recruiters by misclassifying them as overtime-exempt, saying the company's establishment of the arbitration pact two years into the litigation was misleading and unfair.
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August 22, 2024
An au pair company told the First Circuit that forcing it to advance arbitration efforts before filing a response in a wage suit would conflict with a U.S. Supreme Court's ruling tackling the timing of arbitration requests.
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August 22, 2024
A Pennsylvania state court gave final approval Thursday to a $970,000 settlement, including $355,000 in attorney fees, to resolve workers' claims that Great American Welding Co. owed them pay for the time they spent shuttling between satellite parking lots and Shell's petrochemical cracker plant in southwestern Pennsylvania.
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August 22, 2024
The Philadelphia Police Department failed to notify ranking officers that they were eligible to receive overtime pay for authorized emergency work, resulting in these employees losing out on thousands of hours' worth of compensation, a proposed class action filed in Pennsylvania federal court said.
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August 21, 2024
A California federal judge greenlighted a collective of recruiters who said a payroll and human resources company cheated them out of overtime compensation, saying the workers who brought the case have successfully shown that the company's conduct applied across the board.
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August 21, 2024
A group of 41 migrant housekeepers and a cleaning contractor asked a Colorado federal court Wednesday to give final approval to the $400,000 deal they reached to end claims of wage and visa law violations, including threats of deportation.
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August 21, 2024
A landscaping and snow removal company in Colorado paid nearly $133,000 in back wages and damages for denying 56 workers overtime rates, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Tuesday.
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August 21, 2024
A North Carolina federal judge on Wednesday tossed a lawsuit former workers lodged against a government contractor accusing it of illegally amending a policy to avoid providing employees with payouts when they left the company, saying the policy at issue is not governed by federal benefits law.
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August 21, 2024
Employers should support that their employees are overtime-exempt through the more stable and long-used preponderance-of-the-evidence standard, the government told the U.S. Supreme Court, saying that a stricter test goes against the court's precedent.
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August 21, 2024
The operators of nine fast food restaurants in Arizona will pay $350,000 in fines to end a U.S. Department of Labor suit alleging they employed at least 428 children younger than 16 to work at times federal law does not permit, according to court papers.
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August 21, 2024
An insurance company reached a deal to resolve a collective action accusing it of classifying insurance adjusters as overtime-exempt despite their duties not meeting the definition of exempt work under federal law, a filing in Wisconsin federal court said.