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August 28, 2024
Two restaurants in the Dallas area paid nearly $198,000 for denying workers their full tips and wages, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Wednesday.
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August 28, 2024
A corporate office furnisher and a former employee again asked a Georgia federal court to greenlight a deal that would resolve the worker's suit alleging he was fired for complaining about unpaid overtime, saying this third settlement draft adequately reduces an attorney's fees.
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August 27, 2024
A Taco Bell franchisee, Sharp Electronics and DoorDash are among the latest employers to reach class deals in Washington state court to end job seekers' allegations they failed to include salary or wage ranges in job postings, in violation of Evergreen State pay transparency laws.
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August 27, 2024
An insurance company declined to send to arbitration a proposed collective action accusing it of failing to fully compensate sales agents for their overtime hours, saying the relevant document controlling the terms of these workers' employment doesn't include an arbitration clause.
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August 27, 2024
A California appeals court has upheld a trial court's denial of an anti-SLAPP motion in a lawsuit alleging a partner in one law firm tried to misappropriate fees won in an overtime suit by another law firm where he was also a partner.
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August 27, 2024
Rapper DaBaby's hip-hop label misclassified performers as independent contractors to avoid paying them overtime and minimum wages and dictated when they were allowed to eat and use the bathroom, according to a proposed class action filed in California state court.
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August 27, 2024
Reed Smith LLP has urged a New Jersey state court judge to reject a bid by a former attorney suing the firm for gender discrimination to obtain pay data going back nearly 20 years, arguing there is no legal basis to support expanding the scope of discovery.
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August 27, 2024
More than a dozen gas stations in New York will pay nearly $1.2 million to end a U.S. Department of Labor suit alleging they stiffed more than 100 workers on their full wages, according to court papers filed Tuesday.
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August 27, 2024
Croke Fairchild Duarte & Beres LLC, one of the country's largest women-owned law firms, has added an employment attorney from Smith Gambrell & Russell LLP as a partner.
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August 27, 2024
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has signed contentious new bills into law recently that attorneys and business owners are adjusting to, including updates to the state's Open Public Records Act that make "fee shifting" more difficult, and a new wage requirement for temporary workers.
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August 27, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor is looking for 28 former employees of a Georgia home healthcare company who are eligible for nearly $66,000 in back wages and damages as part of a settlement in an overtime suit with the employer, the agency announced Tuesday.
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August 27, 2024
Paul DeCamp, a former administrator in the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division, said the overturning of Chevron deference will lead to better rulemaking. Here, Law360 talks with DeCamp about the future of agency rules.
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August 27, 2024
The Sixth Circuit upended Geico's win in a lawsuit from insurance agents accusing it of misclassifying them as independent contractors and forcing them to lose out on benefits, saying more evidence is needed to determine if the insurer relied on unauthentic documents to get the suit tossed.
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August 27, 2024
Before Vice President Kamala Harris held her current office, she was a U.S. senator from California from 2017 to 2021. Here, Law360 details five wage and hour bills Harris supported that could preview policies her administration might champion if she wins the presidential election.
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August 27, 2024
A former Massachusetts state trooper asked to stay his five-year prison sentence for stealing overtime pay, lying on his taxes and cheating to get student aid for his son — a request prosecutors said was "yet another attempt to delay justice in this case."
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August 26, 2024
Albertsons told an Oregon federal judge Monday that if the Federal Trade Commission is able to block a proposed merger with Kroger, it could lead to layoffs and shuttered stores, because a go-it-alone Albertsons doesn't have the wholesale buying power to compete with Walmart and Costco on prices.
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August 26, 2024
Caregiver job website Care.com has agreed to shell out $8.5 million in refunds to put to rest allegations it misled caregivers about wages and job availability and also made it difficult for families to cancel paid memberships, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced Monday.
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August 26, 2024
A Washington federal judge has awarded two plaintiffs firms almost $1.2 million of a $4.4 million class and collective wage deal ending a group of Evergreen state hospital workers' claims that their employers deducted pay for meal breaks they never took.
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August 26, 2024
A Georgia federal judge on Monday restricted the U.S. Department of Labor's ability to enforce a rule increasing wages for H-2A foreign agricultural workers during litigation, saying the law is unconstitutional because it violates the 1935 National Labor Relations Act.
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August 26, 2024
The Fifth Circuit striking down a U.S. Department of Labor rule regarding tipped wages shows just how vulnerable federal wage and hour rules are without Chevron deference, attorneys say. Here, Law360 explores the decision.
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August 26, 2024
A California federal judge granted final approval Monday to a $3.2 million settlement that resolves a class action accusing Red Robin of misclassifying managers as overtime-exempt, despite them performing the same tasks as workers who could cash in on the extra hours.
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August 26, 2024
A former X Corp. employee asked a California federal court to greenlight an approximately 2,200-member class in his lawsuit alleging the company reneged on promised bonuses after Elon Musk took over the social media company formerly known as Twitter.
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August 26, 2024
Alaska Airlines Inc. and Horizon Air Industries Inc. will pay $4.75 million to resolve a class action alleging it shortchanged pilots who took short-term military leave while allowing others to claim pay for jury duty or bereavement leave, a policy the service members called biased.
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August 26, 2024
The operators of three restaurants in Texas paid nearly $69,000 for tip violations, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Monday.
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August 26, 2024
A Wisconsin federal judge partially granted a manufacturing company's motion to dismiss a machinist's wage and hour collective action, citing a recent Seventh Circuit opinion that held a plaintiff can't represent out-of-state workers when the employer isn't based in the state in which the case was filed.