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July 02, 2024
A New York county can't dodge a former assistant district attorney's suit claiming she was unlawfully fired for requesting time off following her husband's cancer diagnosis, with a federal judge ruling more information is needed to determine whether she was misled about her eligibility for leave.
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July 02, 2024
In the first half of 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court decided a pair of cases addressing arbitration in wage and hour litigation, the Sixth Circuit weighed minimum wage for pizza delivery drivers and a New York decision created an appellate split on timely pay requirements. Here, Law360 recaps those rulings and four other major decisions so far this year.
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July 02, 2024
A California state appeals court found a wage and hour lawsuit against a tax credit firm was brought in bad faith because the worker lacked evidence to support her allegations, upholding a lower court's ruling and awarding attorney fees and costs to the firm.
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July 02, 2024
The Second Circuit declined Tuesday to undo the tossing of an antitrust lawsuit brought by a Broadway producer who accused a stage workers union of illegally putting him on a "do not work" list, ruling that the union is shielded from liability since it acted in legitimate self-interest.
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July 02, 2024
A Philadelphia home care company will pay more than $179,000 in back wages, damages and fines to end a U.S. Department of Labor suit alleging it failed to pay workers overtime rates, according to court papers.
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July 02, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision killing the Chevron doctrine shows that the U.S. Department of Labor couldn't toss a Trump-era rule determining workers' independent contractor status and issue a new one, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other groups told a Texas court.
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July 02, 2024
A healthcare staffing company urged a Virginia federal judge to toss a proposed collective action accusing it of automatically deducting meal breaks from workers' time sheets and requiring them to perform off-the-clock work, arguing the worker who brought the suit signed a pact to arbitrate any employment disputes.
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July 02, 2024
The Fifth Circuit asked the U.S. Department of Labor and a Dairy Queen franchisee to address how the recent U.S. Supreme Court's decision nixing the Chevron doctrine affects a challenge to the department's overtime rule.
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July 02, 2024
Three home care companies in overtime disputes with the U.S. Department of Labor urged the Third Circuit to reverse and remand a ruling that they waited too long to challenge a 2013 ruling on in-home caregivers' ability to earn minimum wage under a new U.S. Supreme Court precedent.
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July 01, 2024
By ending its term with a stinging combination against federal agencies, the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative bloc left behind a bruised bureaucracy and a regulatory system that's now vulnerable to a barrage of incoming attacks.
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July 01, 2024
Eight young app developers have sued "Heartless" rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, his company and its former chief of staff, conservative firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos, in California federal court, alleging they fostered a hostile and abusive working environment, subjecting them to "extreme racism," bullying and harassment without pay.
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July 01, 2024
A jury awarded $1.4 million in damages for unpaid bonuses to a former marketing director for a biotechnology-focused venture capital company after a retrial on the damages award, unanimously granting the ex-executive almost the same amount as an earlier award that a New York federal judge opposed.
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July 01, 2024
A Texas federal judge refused Monday to grant a marketing company's request to block a U.S. Department of Labor rule that raises the salary thresholds for claiming overtime-exemption under federal law, saying the firm failed to show it will be harmed by the new standards.
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July 01, 2024
A trucking company and a group of drivers have reached a deal in a suit that started in 2020 claiming that workers received a "per-ton" compensation that ignored overtime, a Kentucky federal judge has said.
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July 01, 2024
Delta Air Lines has not been including pay ranges in its job postings in Washington, in violation of a state pay transparency law, an applicant for a position at the airline claimed in a proposed class action seeking to represent over 1,000 potential employees.
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July 01, 2024
A Washington hospital agreed to shell out $1.4 million to end a lawsuit claiming employees worked through meal breaks without pay, with a medical coder urging a federal court to sign off on the settlement covering about 1,350 workers.
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July 01, 2024
A subsidiary of Flowers Foods and a group of workers told a California federal judge they reached an agreement to settle a lawsuit alleging independent contractor misclassification, two months after a federal judge told the subsidiary it must face the claims.
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July 01, 2024
A worker suing a telecommunications and electrical contracting company must arbitrate unpaid wages claims because their arbitration agreement is enforceable, a California federal judge ruled.
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July 01, 2024
The Eighth Circuit has reversed a district court's sanction barring a law firm from participating in Fair Labor Standards Act lawsuits in the Eastern District of Arkansas over reported violations of the rules of civil procedure.
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July 01, 2024
A U.S. Department of Labor rule that took effect Monday and raises the salary thresholds for overtime exemptions won't apply to the state of Texas for now, a Texas federal judge said, finding that the rule "is likely unlawful."
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July 01, 2024
Legal challenges to federal regulations can be brought outside the normal statute of limitations if someone isn't adversely affected until after the six-year window of time to file suit, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday.
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June 28, 2024
By knocking down a powerful precedent that has towered over administrative law for 40 years, the U.S. Supreme Court's right wing Friday gave a crowning achievement to anti-agency attorneys. But for those attorneys, the achievement is merely a means to an end, and experts expect a litigation blitzkrieg to materialize quickly in the aftermath.
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June 28, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overrule a decades-old judicial deference doctrine may cause the "eternal fog of uncertainty" surrounding federal agency actions to dissipate and level the playing field in challenges of government policies, but lawyers warn it raises new questions over what rules courts must follow and how judges will implement them.
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June 28, 2024
California legislators in both the Senate and Assembly overwhelmingly backed big changes to California's Private Attorneys General Act, including an adjustment to how penalties are assessed to employers and awarded to employees, sending the package to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk.
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June 28, 2024
A clause in a firefighters union's collective bargaining agreement that permits taking paid leave for negotiations does not violate the Lone Star state's constitution, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday while reversing an award of attorney fees and sanctions against some of the plaintiffs.