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July 12, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for the potential initial sign-off on a nearly $4 million settlement to resolve a proposed wage and hour class and collective action against language interpretation company Language Line Services Inc. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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July 11, 2024
Kroger and Albertsons are asking an administrative law judge from the Federal Trade Commission to pause the evidentiary portion of the agency's in-house case against the supermarket giants' merger, saying the companies are facing too many overlapping cases in different venues to adequately prepare and present their case.
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July 11, 2024
The Washington Supreme Court on Thursday said a nurse's wage theft suit against a hospital can proceed even though his claims are the same as the ones lodged by his union in a tossed suit, finding it would be in the best interest of both efficiency and justice.
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July 11, 2024
Lawsuits filed by job seekers following the enactment of Washington state's unique pay transparency law are lurching forward, and experts say the suits' journeys to the plaintiff-friendly venue of state court and a $3.8 million class action settlement highlight some key takeaways from this type of litigation.
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July 11, 2024
Amateurism can't shield the NCAA from student-athletes' Fair Labor Standards Act claims, the Third Circuit ruled Thursday, laying out a test to sort out whether athletes can be considered employees under the federal statute.
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July 11, 2024
A duo of Campbell Soup drivers who deliver snacks to retailers accused the company of misclassifying them as independent contractors to cheat them out of minimum and overtime wages, according to a proposed collective action filed in North Carolina federal court.
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July 11, 2024
A former delivery driver of a Manhattan sushi restaurant should receive about $23,000 in damages in his suit claiming unpaid wages, a New York federal judge recommended, significantly lowering what the worker had asked for.
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July 11, 2024
Two Mexican restaurants in Iowa paid nearly $49,000 in back wages and damages for denying 18 workers their overtime pay, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Thursday.
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July 11, 2024
An information technology staffing agency engages in "modern-day indentured servitude" via contract provisions that tether employees to jobs, forcing them to pay up to $30,000 if they leave the company, and chill their complaints, the U.S. Department of Labor told a New York federal court.
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July 11, 2024
The Washington Supreme Court has agreed to review whether the state labor agency jumped the gun by suing a cannabis company to collect back pay for employees before the agency knew how much money the workers were owed.
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July 10, 2024
Republican leaders of major congressional committees Wednesday demanded details from dozens of agencies on policies suddenly shrouded in uncertainty after U.S. Supreme Court conservatives overturned the so-called Chevron doctrine, which for 40 years gave regulators flexibility in rulemaking and advantages in related litigation.
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July 10, 2024
A Texas federal court granted Harris County Sheriff's Department deputies' request to cut several employees from the constable's office from their proposed collective action accusing the department of shorting them on overtime pay, and rejected the county's argument that the case should largely be thrown out.
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July 10, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor didn't show how a Mississippi federal court erred in ordering the agency to turn over the identities of some migrant workers who participated in the department's investigation of a fishery, the court ruled Wednesday, standing by its earlier decision.
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July 10, 2024
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday revived, for a second time, call center agents' collective action alleging the time spent turning on and off their computers before their shifts is payable under the Fair Labor Standards Act, finding that to be a factual issue that should be resolved through a jury trial.
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July 10, 2024
A performer at Lips Restaurant Atlanta LLC, a bar that provides drag show entertainment to diners and patrons, has filed a proposed class action against the restaurant, its owners and its general manager for allegedly failing to pay proper minimum and overtime wages.
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July 10, 2024
After Colorado recently moved to the forefront of regulating artificial intelligence in the workplace, numerous other states across the ideological spectrum — including conservative bastions like Oklahoma — are considering legislation of their own. Here, Law360 looks at four bills to regulate the use of AI in the workplace that bear watching in the second half of 2024.
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July 10, 2024
The Third Circuit on Wednesday issued a rare opinion declining to enforce a union's arbitration win, saying a Teamsters unit waited too long to challenge a cemetery operator's read of their new contract's raise language.
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July 10, 2024
X Corp. and Elon Musk can escape claims they owe former employees $500 million in severance following the business mogul's purchase of the social platform formerly known as Twitter, a California federal judge ruled, saying the facts don't show that federal benefits law governed the payments workers received.
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July 10, 2024
A restaurant in Virginia paid more than $172,000 in back wages and damages for denying 21 workers overtime rates, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Wednesday.
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July 10, 2024
Republican governors and state legislators are pushing back against the U.S. Department of Labor's attempts to rein in unlawful child labor, a federal effort those at the state level argue is hurting employers.
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July 10, 2024
A home care company in New Orleans paid $110,000 in back wages and damages for denying workers overtime rates, the U.S. Department of Labor announced.
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July 09, 2024
A Seventh Circuit panel turned down pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly & Co.'s challenge to an Indiana federal court's decision to grant collective certification in an age discrimination suit, but said it would be open to looking at the two-step certification process in place to greenlight collectives.
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July 09, 2024
A Mexican restaurant in Pennsylvania will pay more than $1.3 million in back wages, damages and fines to end a U.S. Department of Labor suit alleging it kept portions of workers' tips and denied proper overtime rates, according to federal court papers filed Tuesday.
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July 09, 2024
A Texas federal judge certified a collective of card dealers for a Dallas poker club who alleged they were paid below minimum wage because they were forced to share their tips with managers, finding Tuesday that their responsibilities were similar enough to support proceeding as a group.
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July 09, 2024
A Colorado federal judge urged Amazon and workers suing the company over unpaid COVID-19 screenings to file briefs on whether he should recuse himself from the case, disclosing that his son works for what he believes is an Amazon affiliate.