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June 28, 2024
The owners and operator of a Georgia restaurant required waitresses to share their tips with workers not eligible to receive them and failed to pay overtime and minimum wage, two former employees said in a proposed collective action in federal court.
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June 28, 2024
Vedder Price has hired an employment litigator from Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP as a shareholder in its Chicago office, the firm announced Friday.
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June 28, 2024
A misclassification suit that went to the U.S. Supreme Court should stay out of arbitration, two food distributors told the Second Circuit, arguing that a slew of rulings supported their arguments that they should be considered transportation workers.
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June 28, 2024
Two surgical technicians and a hospital network settled a class action wage suit and asked a California federal judge to send the suit back to state court for final approval of the deal, where a related Private Attorneys General Act case has been pending.
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June 28, 2024
In a rare move, the U.S. Supreme Court will issue opinions into the beginning of July as the court tries to clear its merits docket of three remaining cases dealing with presidential immunity, whether governments can control social media platforms' content moderation policies and the appropriate deadline to challenge agency action.
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June 28, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned a decades-old precedent that instructed judges about when they could defer to federal agencies' interpretations of law in rulemaking, depriving courts of a commonly used analytic tool and leaving lots of questions about what comes next.
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June 27, 2024
Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. on Thursday agreed to pay a combined $175 million and provide drivers with a suite of benefits to settle an employee classification lawsuit brought by the state of Massachusetts.
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June 27, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday backed a Florida radiology practice's defeat of a doctor's lawsuit alleging he was fired because he requested medical leave, ruling a lower court didn't err when it blocked him from presenting evidence he hadn't previously disclosed.
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June 27, 2024
A power utility run by the City of Austin, Texas, can't dodge allegations that it purposely failed to pay a former customer service representative overtime premiums even though she regularly worked 50 hours a week, with a federal judge finding Thursday that she brought enough evidence to keep her claims in play.
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June 27, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor told a Texas federal court it included a minimum salary aspect in executive, administrative or professional rules since the Fair Labor Standards Act's inception, arguing a marketing firm doesn't have the basis to halt a final overtime rule.
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June 27, 2024
The owner of two adult care homes in Alabama will pay nearly $202,000 in back wages, damages and fines for denying workers their full wages, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Thursday.
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June 27, 2024
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP announced that a labor and employment attorney with more than 40 years of experience has joined the firm's Reno, Nevada, office as a partner.
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June 27, 2024
A Georgia school district agreed to pay nearly $114,000 to end a collective action accusing it of underpaying employees on overtime by failing to include a retention bonus when calculating their time-and-a-half rate, according to a motion to approve the deal filed in federal court.
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June 27, 2024
A former employee of a Texas-based steel fabrication and erection company supported his claims that his former employer owes him overtime, a Fifth Circuit panel ruled, affirming a lower court's decision awarding the worker more than $80,000.
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June 27, 2024
A Washington federal judge refused to certify an appeal to the Ninth Circuit concerning the lower court's decision to remand to state court a lawsuit alleging retailer Aaron's should have included pay ranges in job advertisements, saying that state court is the ideal venue to interpret state law.
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June 26, 2024
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which took effect one year ago Thursday, has brought about more pregnancy accommodations for workers without causing overwhelming compliance challenges for employers, attorneys on both sides of the bar say.
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June 26, 2024
A Colorado state jury on Wednesday found that a gas marketing company breached an employment agreement and violated the Colorado Wage Claim Act when it failed to pay a trading director a $3.3 million bonus from natural gas trades made during a historic 2021 winter storm.
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June 26, 2024
Starbucks retaliated against an Army veteran who took time off after the birth of his child by firing him during a Teams call, a lawsuit in Washington federal court claims.
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June 26, 2024
A pizza restaurant in Texas will pay nearly $30,000 to end a U.S. Department of Labor suit alleging it operated an invalid tip pool and failed to pay proper overtime rates, according to court papers filed Wednesday.
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June 26, 2024
Two locations of a Michigan healthcare system unlawfully require employees to work through their meal breaks without pay in violation of federal wage law, according to two separate proposed collective actions filed in federal court.
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June 26, 2024
If former President Donald Trump wins reelection, the U.S. Department of Labor could return to wage and hour standards from his prior administration, and there could be a push for Congress to update what counts toward overtime, according to employment attorney Jonathan Berry’s Project 2025 policy recommendations. Berry spoke with Law360 about his recommendations.
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June 26, 2024
A California federal judge placed the final stamp of approval on a $500,000 deal ending claims that a paper company didn't pay a class of over 3,000 workers minimum wages or provide meal and rest breaks owed under state law.
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June 26, 2024
A Massachusetts federal judge granted an unopposed request to certify a collective action brought by managers at 60-plus Dunkin' Donuts locations who claim they were required to work more than 40 hours a week without overtime pay.
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June 26, 2024
Whole Foods has resolved a proposed class action alleging the grocer trimmed workers' paychecks if they came back slightly late from breaks.
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June 25, 2024
A county public employee retirement system has the authority to create employment classifications and set its employees' salaries, a California appellate court ruled Monday, reviving the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association's lawsuit seeking confirmation of its authority to make key personnel decisions.