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September 23, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal judge granted a win Monday to a class of home care workers who said their employer reduced their pay rates when they worked overtime, saying the company's practice is illegal because it was only implemented when workers clocked in more than 40 hours per week.
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September 23, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor told a Florida federal court that its final rule increasing foreign agricultural workers' salaries ensures that H-2A visa holders don't adversely affect the wages of other workers, rejecting farm groups' arguments that the department lacked the authority to do so.
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September 23, 2024
A Massachusetts state judge has OK'd The Boston Globe's request for a subpoena it hopes will show a fired executive had a habit of questionable corporate spending.
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September 23, 2024
A Colorado state judge has entered a $6.8 million judgment against a natural gas marketing company for its failure to pay an ex-trading director a bonus on lucrative trades he made during a 2021 winter storm, a sum that includes more than $2.5 million in penalties for the company's intentional violation of a state wage law.
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September 23, 2024
The Third Circuit contemplated on Monday whether a Pennsylvania battery manufacturer shorted workers $22 million for time they spent putting on and taking off protective gear, with one judge questioning the employer's stance that it was the workers' responsibility to track their donning and doffing time.
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September 23, 2024
UPS beat back claims that it violated benefits and wage laws by depriving two union-represented workers of their seniority and related pension credits when they transferred units, with an Indiana federal judge saying that issues with the lawsuit tanked the workers' legal arguments.
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September 23, 2024
A Fifth Circuit decision affirming the U.S. Department of Labor's authority to issue salary regulations doesn't foreclose the success of other challenges to its overtime standard, but it provides a methodical road map for courts to evaluate rulemaking generally, attorneys say.
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September 23, 2024
The chairwoman of the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce served the U.S. Department of Labor with a subpoena Monday, pointing to the department's several failures to respond to questions about its independent contractor misclassification probes.
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September 23, 2024
An Arkansas federal judge signed off on a settlement that puts an end to an emergency dispatcher's proposed class action alleging the city of Jonesboro, Arkansas, shorted her and others on overtime wages, finding she had adequately resolved an error in her prior proposed settlement.
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September 20, 2024
A Washington federal judge pressed an ex-Amazon employee on Friday to back up allegations that she was fired for taking military leave, saying the termination appeared to be an administrative "oops" on the company's part that it has since corrected by offering reinstatement and back pay.
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September 20, 2024
A Louisiana federal judge said Thursday the U.S. Department of Labor likely didn't have the authority to raise wages for H-2A farmworkers, temporarily blocking the rule from applying to sugarcane farms in Louisiana.
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September 20, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor's attempts to defend its wage and hour regulations in a world without Chevron deference have so far been only partly successful, as two recent Fifth Circuit decisions show.
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September 20, 2024
A Washington federal judge on Friday threw out multiple claims from 19 delivery drivers in an 8-year-old lawsuit alleging Amazon misclassified them as independent contractors and shorted them on wages, saying many of the workers failed to show that their wages dipped below state and federal standards.
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September 20, 2024
A former certified Verizon retailer will shell out $750,000 to about 450 workers following an investigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James that revealed the business cheated employees out of wages and retaliated against those who raised any issues, James announced Friday.
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September 20, 2024
This week the Second Circuit will consider a janitorial company's challenge to a lower court order that allowed an arbitration award in a dispute over what a janitor alleged was the company's misclassification of janitors as independent contractors to become public. Here, Law360 explores this and another employment case on the docket in New York.
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September 20, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor urged a Texas federal court to throw out a lawsuit from the Lone Star State and several business groups alleging the agency's new rule setting salary thresholds for overtime exemptions is unlawful, saying a recent Fifth Circuit opinion indicates the opposite.
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September 20, 2024
A Texas-based oil field support services company misclassified workers as independent contractors to avoid paying them overtime, a former worker alleged in a proposed collective action filed in federal court.
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September 20, 2024
Buchalter PC said Thursday that it has hired three attorneys from California firm Atkinson Andelson Loya Ruud & Romo, including a shareholder who will co-chair its wage and hour practice and chair its Private Attorneys General Act practice.
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September 20, 2024
The bag fees caddies received from golfers were tips, not service charges, a New York federal judge ruled, denying a course operator's bid to toss the workers' suit claiming unpaid minimum wage and overtime under federal and state law.
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September 20, 2024
A California federal judge threw out several claims in a retired police lieutenant's lawsuit alleging the city of Los Angeles denied sick time and promotions to police officers who took military leave, although the parties have taken issue with the scope of the judge's order.
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September 19, 2024
An Arkansas federal judge on Thursday closed a suit a group of exotic dancers launched against a club owner accusing him of misclassifying them as independent contractors and compensating them only through tips, coming after the parties reached a settlement in June.
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September 19, 2024
The Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs will pay $175,000 to end a U.S. Department of Justice suit alleging it offered a female job applicant a lower salary than what it paid a man for the same position, according to a filing Thursday in federal court.
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September 19, 2024
New York Labor Law gives workers the ability to sue over claims of untimely payments, a New York federal judge ruled Thursday, departing from a magistrate judge's recommendation to toss a suit against Sephora.
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September 19, 2024
A Colorado federal judge granted final approval Thursday to a $400,000 settlement that resolves claims from migrant housekeepers who accused a cleaning contractor of committing a variety of wage and visa law violations and threatening to deport workers who complained.
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September 19, 2024
Long-haul freight delivery company CRST will shell out about $4 million to settle a suit by truck drivers accusing the company of not paying them their full wages and failing to provide breaks, after a California federal judge gave the deal its initial approval.