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October 02, 2024
A New Jersey federal judge greenlighted a $2.7 million settlement that resolves a suit from a collective of sales specialists who accused pharmaceutical company Teva of unlawfully denying them overtime wages during an extended training program.
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October 01, 2024
A Washington appeals court refused to upend a class of workers' $3.3 million win in their lawsuit accusing a Seattle-based hospital of failing to provide them with 30-minute meal periods, saying employees in Washington state are entitled to additional pay if they're forced to work through their breaks.
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October 01, 2024
More employers may follow in Amazon's footsteps and require a return to the office, which means employees need to relearn how to track their hours and employers should reevaluate their jurisdictional obligations, among other tips.
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October 01, 2024
A $335,000 wage deal between background investigators and the tech company that employed them can go forward because it is fair and reasonable, a California federal judge said, approving the settlement.
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October 01, 2024
California's Assembly Bill 5 raising the standard to classify workers as independent contractors is unconstitutional because it targets companies like Postmates and Uber, two business groups told the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, urging the justices to take up a Ninth Circuit ruling.
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October 01, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice is backing a proposed class action from University of Pittsburgh Medical Center workers who say the hospital used noncompetes and blacklists to suppress wages, telling a Pennsylvania federal judge that UPMC's motion to dismiss the suit sets an "insurmountable" pre-discovery bar for plaintiffs.
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October 01, 2024
An entertainment and hospitality company misclassified workers as independent contractors and deprived them of labor protections including overtime wages and rest periods, a proposed class action filed in California state court said.
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October 01, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor and New Jersey's labor office set up a joint enforcement plan to make sure employers are following child labor law, the DOL announced Tuesday.
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October 01, 2024
Beauty products giant Sephora said a New York federal judge used the wrong standard when he departed from a magistrate judge's recommendation and kept alive workers' claims that they were paid late, urging him to reconsider the decision.
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October 01, 2024
A Colorado federal judge refused to throw out a suit from an airline lobbying group alleging the state's sick leave law is unlawful, though he agreed to toss the group's Railway Labor Act claim because the act doesn't meaningfully disrupt current collective bargaining agreements.
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October 01, 2024
A Virginia rehabilitation and nursing care center paid nearly $25,000 for denying workers required benefits and paid sick leave, the U.S. Department of Labor said.
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September 30, 2024
A former dancer hit Atlanta's famous adult entertainment club Magic City with a proposed collective action claiming it mischaracterized her and others as independent contractors and willfully failed to comply with federal wage laws.
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September 30, 2024
The full Fifth Circuit declined Monday to rethink its decision that a crude oil hauler isn't owed overtime because she plays a role in an interstate trip and thus falls under a Fair Labor Standards Act exemption, despite a dissent saying the court drifted too far from the law.
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September 30, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission is withdrawing from an agreement signed in August with the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Labor and the National Labor Relations Board that's meant to increase collaboration when looking at labor issues in mergers.
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September 30, 2024
A Georgia logistics company accused of luring skilled workers from Mexico to the U.S. with empty promises of well-paying technical jobs asked a federal judge Friday to be let out of the proposed class action for want of any ties to the plaintiffs' alleged mistreatment.
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September 30, 2024
A federal employee who was denied top-up pay while on active duty as a military reservist is not owed any wages because he wasn't called to serve in a national emergency despite serving at the same time as one, the U.S. Department of Transportation told the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday.
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September 30, 2024
A Georgia federal judge declined to sign off on an agreement to settle a former delivery driver's lawsuit alleging unreimbursed expenses pushed his pizzeria pay below the federal minimum wage, expressing some concern about the arrangement.
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September 30, 2024
Conservative-led states told the U.S. Supreme Court that President Joe Biden's administration misused the Procurement Act when it hiked federal contractors' hourly minimum wage to $15, throwing their support behind two outdoor groups hoping to overturn a Tenth Circuit ruling in favor of the federal government.
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September 30, 2024
New wage and hour requirements will begin in Alabama and Maryland on Tuesday, while a higher minimum wage for California healthcare workers could also start as early as mid-October. Here, Law360 explores these updates.
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September 27, 2024
A Fourth Circuit panel on Friday grappled with the degree of control nurses have over their work and if they automatically become employees by signing a noncompete, as it considered a medical staffing company's bid to overturn a $9 million misclassification suit judgment following a bench trial.
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September 27, 2024
A Connecticut federal judge should toss a lawsuit against the city of Derby in which the municipal human resources director alleges that her pay was inexplicably cut because the plaintiff has not shown that she had a valid employment contract in the first place, the city has argued.
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September 27, 2024
The Second Circuit on Friday declined to reinstate two delivery drivers' lawsuit alleging that a last-mile delivery firm misclassified them as independent contractors to shift business costs onto them, rejecting the workers' request to have the Connecticut Supreme Court weigh in on the dispute.
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September 27, 2024
Chicago Tribune journalists told an Illinois federal court that they supported their claims that the paper and its parent Alden Global Capital paid them less because of their sex and race, urging the court to not engage in a motion to dismiss.
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September 27, 2024
A California federal judge gave final approval to an $875,000 deal ending a wage and hour class action brought against Bimbo Bakeries by delivery drivers and route salespeople, according to a court filing Friday.
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September 27, 2024
A New Mexico federal judge ruled that a former human resources labor analyst's supervisor terminated him for violating the department's absence policies, dismissing the worker's claims that he was fired and retaliated against following his hospitalization for kidney disease.