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April 18, 2025
A former chief counsel for Sunoco LP sued her ex-employer in Texas state court Wednesday, alleging she was denied promotional opportunities and later terminated due to her age, while also accusing the company of replacing attorneys older than 50 with significantly younger attorneys with less experience.
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April 18, 2025
The Trump administration faced off with two BigLaw firms in lawsuits over executive orders, a group of law students sued the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over its demand for law firm diversity information and the American Bar Association was sued for race discrimination. Here, Law360 looks at notable DEI-related legal developments from the past week.
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April 18, 2025
Cleveland health system MetroHealth has asked a federal court in Ohio to toss a potential class action alleging a failure to properly pay workers overtime, telling the judge a nursing assistant had not proved the healthcare provider violated the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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April 18, 2025
Delaware would exempt eligible workers' overtime pay from state income tax under a bill introduced in the state House of Representatives.
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April 18, 2025
Attorneys out of Philadelphia and New Jersey have merged their practices to start a new law firm focused on employment, criminal, civil rights and survivor's rights law, the partners announced earlier this week.
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April 18, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for potential initial approval of an almost $20 million class action settlement involving three Raytheon companies. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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April 18, 2025
In the coming week, a New York federal judge will consider a hospital's request to toss a suit brought by a doctor who claims she was discriminated against on the basis of her race and gender and retaliated against when she complained.
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April 18, 2025
A D.C. federal judge once again halted the layoffs of more than 1,000 employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, saying at an emergency hearing Friday morning that she needed a full record to determine whether the firings complied with a D.C. Circuit order from last week.
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April 17, 2025
A pharmacist's objections to a $10.4 million settlement of a wage and hour class action affecting 24,000 CVS employees hold no weight, a Ninth Circuit panel found, ruling Thursday that a California federal judge adequately considered the merits of each objection before tossing them.
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April 17, 2025
A construction company with $88 million worth of Federal Emergency Management Agency contracts recruited 17 Filipino workers, promising fair wages and free housing, but instead cheated them out of pay and housed them in unsanitary conditions, a suit filed Thursday in the Northern Mariana Islands federal court claims.
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April 17, 2025
As the federal rules shift around overtime exemptions, employers often get hit with claims that they misclassified workers as exempt, failed to include bonuses in overtime math and paid a flat rate even when work went beyond 40 hours a week. Here, Law360 explores common overtime claims and how to avoid them.
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April 17, 2025
A staffing company and several rental car companies including Hertz incorrectly classify workers as independent contractors to save costs and avoid paying them overtime wages, according to a proposed class and collective action filed in Virginia federal court.
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April 17, 2025
The AFL-CIO, unions and advocacy groups may pursue allegations that Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency lacks the power to access data from the U.S. Department of Labor and other federal agencies, a D.C. federal judge ruled while tossing some claims under federal administrative and privacy law.
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April 17, 2025
California employment law firm Lawyers for Justice PC has filed a suit in state court accusing one of its former clients of defamation in what the firm calls "a scorched-earth crusade against her former attorneys."
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April 17, 2025
The Second Circuit gave workers another chance to win approval of their $840,000 deal with a packaging supplies manufacturer over claims of unpaid wages, saying a lower court shouldn't have considered their attorney's alleged misconduct in another case as basis for deeming his counsel inadequate in this one.
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April 17, 2025
A travel technology company incorrectly classifies sales employees as exempt from earning overtime wages despite their job duties not falling under any overtime exemption, a proposed class action filed in Colorado state court said.
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April 17, 2025
A California trial court correctly prevented a former Dole employee from substituting himself in his Private Attorneys General Act case with another worker suing the company, a state appeals court ruled, saying the two workers didn't have much in common.
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April 17, 2025
New York City struck a deal to resolve a housing development worker's collective action accusing it of running afoul of the Fair Labor Standards Act by stiffing city employees on overtime wages, a federal court filing said.
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April 16, 2025
Southwest Airlines has moved a union lawsuit challenging its sick leave settlement with the state of Colorado to federal court, after the union amended its complaint to add a proposed class of flight attendants also challenging the deal.
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April 16, 2025
JetBlue Airways Corp. is the target of a proposed class action in Washington state court from workers who allege the airline owes them for sick leave and breaks, as well as back pay for new hires, who had to study for mandatory orientation and job assessments.
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April 16, 2025
The Third Circuit nixed on Wednesday a New Jersey lower court's order making a father-son delivery driver duo arbitrate their wage and hour claims against tortilla producer Gruma Corp., finding the Federal Arbitration Act does not apply to the parties' distributor contract.
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April 16, 2025
Three nonprofits have filed suit in D.C. federal court to have the U.S. Department of Labor reinstate cooperative agreements aimed at supporting workers' rights programs abroad, claiming that the department, at the direction of the Department of Government Efficiency, terminated the agreements based on "policy disagreement."
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April 16, 2025
Seattle Public Schools fails to provide pregnant and nursing employees with accommodations such as flexible bathroom breaks and retaliates against workers who request pregnancy-related accommodations, the Washington state attorney general said in a new lawsuit.
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April 16, 2025
A New Mexico federal judge slapped sanctions on UnitedHealthcare for its "dilatory and dismissive tactics" in evading care coordinators' request for a complete dossier of class members in their wage and hour settlement, saying the company should foot the bill for several months of litigation.
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April 16, 2025
Worker-side attorney Schwanda Rountree said she is optimistic about pay transparency empowering employees but wary of how other developments in equal pay-adjacent areas and return-to-work policies may inadvertently hurt workers. Here, Law360 speaks with Rountree about how pay-gap issues will evolve.