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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.
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August 20, 2024
The Democrats over the next four years plan to prioritize raising the federal minimum wage, establishing a national paid leave program, and addressing other wage and hour issues, according to their party platform. Here, Law360 explores wage elements of the Democratic agenda.
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August 20, 2024
A California federal judge refused Tuesday to grant a win to Charter Communications in workers' class action alleging the company failed to pay out unused vacation time when it merged with Time Warner Cable, saying too many questions surround whether the workers were harmed by the practice.
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August 20, 2024
The owner of a chain of Michigan-based dispensaries, Stash Ventures, was hit with a proposed class action lawsuit, accusing management of stealing large portions of tips meant for retail workers.
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August 20, 2024
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce told the U.S. Supreme Court that forcing employers to prove by clear and convincing evidence that their employees are overtime-exempt would shake up civil litigation, supporting an international food distributor's efforts for courts to stick to a broader standard.
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August 20, 2024
A trial has been set for February in the class action brought by mixed martial arts fighters who accused Ultimate Fighting Championship of suppressing their wages, a move that comes after a Nevada federal judge rejected the parties' settlement agreement in March, Law360 learned Tuesday.
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August 20, 2024
An Atlanta immigration law firm has reached a settlement in a federal lawsuit from a paralegal who says he was misclassified as an independent contractor and denied overtime pay, despite routinely working more than 40 hours per week, according to court papers filed Tuesday.
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August 20, 2024
A California state appeals court declined to reinstate a woman's bid to be awarded wages for working round-the-clock for her elderly roommate, saying $96,000 that a lower court awarded her was adequate compensation because she wasn't expected to be on standby 24 hours a day.
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August 20, 2024
The Seventh Circuit's ruling that bars out-of-state workers from joining a wage and hour collective action against a multistate employer is likely to lead to separate cases being filed in multiple states, attorneys told Law360.
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August 20, 2024
The legal industry continues to see incremental gains for female lawyers in private practice in the U.S., according to a Law360 Pulse analysis, with women now representing 40.6% of all attorneys and 51% of all associates.
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August 20, 2024
The legal industry still has a long way to go before it can achieve gender parity at its upper levels. But these law firms are performing better than others in breaking the proverbial glass ceiling that prevents women from attaining leadership roles.
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August 20, 2024
A Florida federal judge signed off on a $12,500 deal to end a suit alleging that a charter school failed to pay a custodian for more than 40 hours a week and fired her when she complained about it, about a month after initially rejecting the deal.
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August 20, 2024
A New York federal judge refused to throw out a trainer's lawsuit alleging that a luxury gym failed to properly pay her and that its owner sexually harassed her, saying her entire case falls under an amendment to the Federal Arbitration Act mandating that sexual harassment claims remain in court.
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August 19, 2024
A federal employee who was denied top-up pay while on active duty as a military reservist urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to rule that all federally employed reservists are owed differential pay if serving during a national emergency, regardless of the circumstances.
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August 19, 2024
Kroger went on the offensive Monday, a week before Oregon federal court proceedings kick off in the Federal Trade Commission's challenge to its purchase of Albertsons, in a lawsuit going after the constitutionality of the agency's in-house court, also set to contest the merger.
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August 19, 2024
The Colorado Supreme Court said Monday it will clear up whether the Colorado Wage Claim Act's shorter statute of limitations applies to claims brought under the state's Minimum Wage Act.
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August 19, 2024
Siemens Corp. violated Washington wage disclosure law by failing to list the wage scale for a field service technician role, according to a proposed class action removed to federal court in Seattle.
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August 19, 2024
A group of workers for an automotive parts company pressed a North Carolina federal court to allow their wage shortfall claims to proceed as a collective, saying their case satisfies all the requirements for certification.
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August 19, 2024
The NCAA is pushing back against critics of its more than $2 billion proposed name, image and likeness settlement with college athletes, arguing the deal is the result of "intense and carefully structured negotiations" by competent class counsel, and detractors have baseless objections.
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August 19, 2024
A residential care company in North Dakota paid nearly $74,000 in back wages for denying workers overtime rates after incorrectly claiming an exemption in the state administrative code, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Monday.
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August 19, 2024
A former Citibank employee's proposed wage and hour class action will go to arbitration after a California federal judge rejected the worker's argument that her case should stay in court because the company failed to pay an arbitration invoice on time.
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August 19, 2024
A Kentucky Islamic center correctly classified an imam as an independent contractor because it didn't exercise the control of an employer over the religious leader, but it was obligated to compensate him for work performed earlier in the coronavirus pandemic, a state appeals panel ruled.