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April 11, 2024
A group of former Geico agents asked the Sixth Circuit to revive their claims that they were misclassified and denied benefits, challenging the accuracy and relevance of plan documents that the lower court reviewed when dismissing the workers' suit.
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April 11, 2024
An Arizona construction contractor specializing in painting will pay $890,000 to settle a U.S. Department of Labor suit accusing it of denying overtime rates and running afoul of child labor laws and recordkeeping requirements, according to papers filed Thursday in Arizona federal court.
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April 11, 2024
A computer and cellphone accessory manufacturer will pay nearly $7,000 to end a former worker's suit alleging unpaid overtime as well as a failure to accommodate her extreme anxiety, a Georgia federal judge ordered Thursday, approving the deal.
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April 11, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor might soon issue a final rule increasing salaries in order for workers to be considered overtime-exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act, after a proposed rule cleared the White House's Office of Management and Budget.
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April 11, 2024
Victoria's Secret Stores has asked a California federal judge to grant it a win in a lawsuit alleging it should have paid employees for the time they spent in pre-shift COVID-19 screenings during the pandemic, saying the claims are barred by a settlement in an identical lawsuit.
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April 11, 2024
An urgent care company that New York City tapped to provide services at migrant facilities failed to compensate workers on time while also owing them weeks of pay, two former employees said in a proposed class and collective action in New York federal court.
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April 11, 2024
Wage-and-hour cases brought by workers on a group basis under both federal and state law have become so routine in federal courts that attorneys told Law360 they're puzzled by a Michigan federal judge's refusal last week to let such a suit proceed.
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April 11, 2024
The University of Tennessee Medical Center did not pay flight nurses and paramedics overtime wages when they worked over 40 hours a week and deducted meal breaks that they were still on duty during, a former flight nurse alleged in a proposed collective action in federal court.
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April 10, 2024
Counsel for two classes encompassing more than 30,000 current and former healthcare workers told a Washington state jury on Wednesday that Providence Health & Services should pay nearly $100 million in damages for using an illegal time clock rounding method that shortchanged employees and failing to provide required meal breaks.
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April 10, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice's argument for federal supremacy as grounds to deny immigrant detainees minimum wage in the workers' fray with detention operator GEO Group doesn't hold up to scrutiny, attorneys say, in a case that has helped shine a light on employee rights for those behind bars.
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April 10, 2024
UberBlack drivers urged a Pennsylvania federal judge not to require them to respond to Uber Technologies Inc.'s additional filing in an independent contractor dispute after the company already submitted a brief invoking Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken," saying Uber defied an order setting page limits.
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April 10, 2024
An Ohio federal judge ruled additional discovery is not necessary for a runner and server's unpaid wages suit, saying the former Ruth's Chris worker is trying to get a second bite at the apple for documents he was already unsuccessful in getting.
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April 10, 2024
Littler Mendelson PC brought on a shareholder who beefed up his practice serving as acting chief legal counsel to former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a role that now informs his work defending employers undergoing government investigations.
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April 10, 2024
A Third Circuit panel appeared skeptical Wednesday of a nursing home's challenge to a National Labor Relations Board decision finding it unlawfully altered bonus pay it issued during the pandemic without bargaining, as judges questioned the company's argument that the bonuses were allowable under an expired contract.
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April 10, 2024
Mexican guest workers and a cleaning company that recruited them to work at a Colorado luxury hotel asked a federal judge on Wednesday to grant initial approval of a $400,000 settlement on claims that the company committed myriad wage and visa law violations and threatened to deport workers who complained.
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April 10, 2024
A restaurant chain has not been paying its servers and bartenders the correct wages, taking a tip credit out of their hourly wages even when they perform nontip-generating work, a server claimed in a proposed collective action filed Wednesday in Kentucky federal court.
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April 10, 2024
A California federal judge refused to grant an ex-worker's request that the court decide whether X Corp. must provide employee bonus-related documents to its former chief financial officer before he sits for a deposition, chiding the former worker for not filing a proper request.
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April 10, 2024
Section 1 of the Federal Arbitration Act only applies to humans, not companies, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled Wednesday, affirming a Washington federal court decision shipping three Amazon workers' misclassification suit to arbitration.
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April 10, 2024
A California federal judge deferred ex-Twitter employees' request to depose X Corp. owner Elon Musk until after other defendants gave their depositions in a suit alleging the company violated federal laws requiring advance warning of mass layoffs.
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April 10, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor pressed a Texas federal court to ax two construction groups' challenge to its rule updating the Davis-Bacon Act, arguing that they face no injury and that their suit relies heavily on speculation and fear-based claims.
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April 10, 2024
A delivery driver and the company he contracts with to transport furniture for Ashley Furniture told a Florida federal judge Wednesday that they had settled a lawsuit alleging the company misclassified the driver as an independent contractor.
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April 10, 2024
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has expanded its ranks in Minneapolis with a lawyer who said she is looking to use her new position to help clients navigate remote work challenges and increasing disability bias issues stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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April 09, 2024
A Starbucks employee brought a proposed class action in California state court on behalf of similarly situated workers in the Golden State over the coffeehouse chain's "systemic failure" to provide adequate lactation spaces and sufficient pumping time for nursing employees.
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April 09, 2024
A newly amended bill in California would give employees a legal right to ignore after-hours work communications, though Golden State employment lawyers on both sides of the bar said the bill would likely need more changes in order to have its desired impact. Here are four open questions attorneys have about the legislation.
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April 09, 2024
A California federal judge said a nearly $1 million settlement between workers and an HVAC and plumbing company can move forward for now, but indicated skepticism about the deal's proposal to allot about $332,000 for attorney fees.