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September 04, 2024
Two nonprofit groups threw support behind the U.S. Department of Labor in a New Mexico trucking company's lawsuit seeking to block the agency's new rule for classifying independent contractors, saying the regulations are key for ensuring employers don't cheat low-wage workers out of the pay and benefits they're owed.
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September 04, 2024
An employer-friendly argument the U.S. Department of Justice made in an overtime cased is part of the chorus of reasons to think the U.S. Supreme Court will continue retreating from interpreting the Fair Labor Standards Act in employees' favor, attorneys told Law360.
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September 04, 2024
An Alabama federal judge signed off on a settlement agreement between a Papa John's franchise and a Black former pizza delivery driver who alleged he faced a hostile work environment and was under-reimbursed for mileage, according to court papers.
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September 04, 2024
The Tenth Circuit pushed the borders of the Procurement Act too much when it blessed President Joe Biden's decision to increase federal contractors' hourly minimum wage, two outdoor groups told the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that the law doesn't authorize wage increases.
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September 04, 2024
A Washington appeals court refused to overturn a state agency's determination that a concrete company owes workers more than $370,000 in wages for working at a disposal site, saying the work was sufficiently related to a public works project to trigger the state's prevailing wage law.
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September 03, 2024
Two Brown University athletes have withdrawn their opposition to the NCAA's proposed $2.78 billion name, image and likeness settlement, telling a federal judge in California on Tuesday that they've been assured it will not impact their own antitrust case against several Ivy League schools.
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September 03, 2024
Retailer Aaron's urged a Washington state court to throw out a job applicant's proposed class action accusing it of failing to post salary ranges in job advertisements, saying the worker's 15 other similar lawsuits show he had no interest in actually getting a job at the company.
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September 03, 2024
The work H-2A visa workers performed for a turf farm doesn't represent the agricultural work that would be exempt from overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act, a Missouri federal judge ruled Tuesday, handing the workers a partial win in their overtime suit.
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September 03, 2024
A New Jersey law strengthening protections for temporary workers will stay in place because halting it would create more harm than good, a New Jersey federal judge ruled, turning down a renewed bid by staffing industry associations to pull the emergency brake on the law.
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September 03, 2024
Duane Morris LLP is asking a California federal court to toss most of the claims in a proposed class action alleging the firm systemically underpaid female and nonwhite attorneys, saying the attorney who filed the complaint has been fairly treated and compensated and her claims lack validity.
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September 03, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor urged a New Mexico federal court to throw out a trucking company's lawsuit that seeks to block the agency's new rule for classifying independent contractors, saying the company failed to show it is affected by the regulations.
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September 03, 2024
A landscaping company in Texas paid nearly $104,000 in back wages for misclassifying dozens of workers, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Tuesday.
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September 03, 2024
A language interpretation and translation services company will shell out $2.7 million to about 1,500 workers who accused the entity in California federal court of unpaid wages, putting to rest claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Private Attorneys General Act.
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September 03, 2024
A New York federal judge declined to grant class certification to a former employee in his suit accusing a discount retailer of incorrectly classifying him and other managers as overtime-exempt, saying he failed to show there was a company-wide policy requiring these workers to perform nonmanagerial work.
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September 03, 2024
Voters this fall will consider ballot questions asking them to pass laws raising the minimum wage and expanding rights to sick leave and collective bargaining, potentially kicking off litigation that will give courts a chance to weigh in.
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August 31, 2024
Outgoing U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission member Keith Sonderling told Law360 in an exclusive interview that elevating the agency's visibility on the artificial intelligence front and reviving the U.S. Department of Labor's use of opinion letters rank among his top accomplishments during his nearly decadelong stint in federal government.
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August 30, 2024
The Third Circuit said Friday it doesn't have jurisdiction over a pipeline company's challenge to a discovery order limited to the issue of the arbitrability of two pipeline inspectors' wage claims, ruling that the challenged order isn't appealable under the Federal Arbitration Act.
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August 30, 2024
This week a New York federal judge will consider attempts from the operators of Four Seasons Hotel New York to toss a class action that claims the hotel violated state and federal law by furloughing them without notice.
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August 30, 2024
A former Dominguez Chiropractic employee hit the Atlanta-area chain with a Fair Labor Standards Act complaint Friday, alleging that it knowingly failed to pay her for overtime and unlawfully retaliated when she complained.
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August 30, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for the potential final approval of a $5.2 million deal in a wage and hour class action against Walmart alleging the retail giant failed to pay for time workers spent in COVID-19 health screenings. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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August 30, 2024
This fall Alabama is set to increase penalties for child labor violations, and Maryland will expand its pay transparency requirements. Here, Law360 explores these and other state and local wage and hour developments attorneys should know.
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August 30, 2024
The Seventh Circuit said it would take up a midsuit appeal from Eli Lilly challenging a lower court's ruling granting collective certification to a sales representative in her age discrimination lawsuit, backpedaling from an order in July that declined to take up the dispute because of its incomplete record.
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August 30, 2024
A Georgia federal judge denied the U.S. Department of Labor's request to reconsider a preliminary injunction blocking a new rule aimed at improving pay and conditions for foreign farmworkers, ruling that its arguments to have the order more narrowly tailored were "far too little too late."
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August 30, 2024
With the Fifth Circuit striking down a federal rule on tipped wages, restaurants may be ready to rejoice, but attorneys say employers still need to check whether their state and local laws impose strict obligations and should retrain staff on servers' duties. Here, Law30 looks at three recommendations from industry attorneys as restaurants face new terrain when it comes to workers and tips.
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August 30, 2024
Campbell Soup Co. incorrectly classified distributors as independent contractors, causing them to lose out on certain employee benefits such as overtime wages, while stripping them of their promised authority, a proposed class action filed in New York federal court said.