http://www.law360.com/employment Latest articles for: Employment Copyright 2012 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:43:36 +0000 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/307992 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/307992 Indiana's Department of Labor on Wednesday hit production company Mid-America Sound Corp., a theatrical union and the Indiana State Fair Commission with fines for their culpability in a stage collapse last August that killed seven people. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:08:25 +0000 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/307872 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/307872 Delaware law doesn't require KV Pharmaceutical Co. to pay for the criminal defense of its former CEO, who was jailed after the company sent out dangerously oversized pills, but he may still be able to recover the costs under his contract, a judge said Tuesday. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:00:28 +0000 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/308000 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/308000 SuperShuttle International Inc. on Wednesday settled a class action brought by franchisees operating shuttle services to and from New York-area airports who alleged they had been misclassified as independent contractors and were owed overtime compensation and other employee benefits. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:53:37 +0000 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/306913 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/306913 House Republicans on Wednesday blasted the use of union money for political activities and called for more oversight and transparency on how union dues are used for political purposes. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:53:27 +0000 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/307384 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/307384 The First Circuit held Tuesday that a trial court did not err in instructing a jury to account for mixed motives in a Massachusetts state law age-discrimination suit, rejecting Jiten Hotel Management Inc.'s assertion that the instruction was improper, and upholding a partial victory for an ex-employee. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:52:19 +0000 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/307998 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/307998 The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration on Wednesday announced a reorganization plan it said would centralize its oversight of certain cross-cutting, compliance-related actions, ensuring its policies intended to prevent serious mine disasters are implemented properly and effectively. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:07:46 +0000 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/307595 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/307595 A New York state appeals court on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of a suit against Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman LLP brought by a client who said the firm and others negligently failed to file a whistleblower action against his former employer before the statute of limitations expired. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:55:32 +0000 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/307956 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/307956 A Texas federal judge last week ruled in favor of a debt collection agency that allegedly fired a woman because she wanted to pump breast milk while at work, finding lactation and breast pumping are not covered by laws protecting against sex discrimination. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:38:13 +0000 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/307523 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/307523 A former employee of recently defunct WJB Capital Group Inc. lodged a putative class action against the brokerage Friday in New York federal court, arguing she and about 100 former colleagues were not given adequate notice of their sudden terminations. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:03:43 +0000 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/307073 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/307073 Government contractors Halliburton Co. and KBR Inc. said Monday they should not be targeted in an overtime pay class action brought by firefighters who worked in Iraq and Afghanistan, arguing the only legitimate lawsuit target is the subcontractor who hired the workers. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:38:47 +0000 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/307663 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/307663 Citigroup Inc. was hit Monday with a proposed collective action by a financial analyst accusing the banking giant of denying her and other similar employees overtime wages after a 2011 investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor allegedly found that several employees had been misclassified.  Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:31:58 +0000 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/307710 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/307710 Hostess Brands Inc. CEO Brian J. Driscoll, who devised the bankrupt company's business restructuring plan, had considered abandoning Hostess unless he was assured that he could receive a $2 million payment in the future under a noncompete agreement, according to a court filing Tuesday. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:03:47 +0000 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/303697 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/303697 An Illinois federal judge on Wednesday found an ex-Motorola Inc. software engineer guilty of stealing the company's trade secrets, but found insufficient evidence to convict her on espionage charges that she had taken the information to benefit the Chinese military. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:21:43 +0000 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/307777 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/307777 The Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday that a California federal judge was wrong to use Georgia's more employer-friendly laws to dismiss an overtime class action against Affinity Logistics Corp., saying the state's laws directly conflict with California's system to protect workers. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:39:32 +0000 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/307793 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/307793 A former employee of B.F. Saul Property Co. hit the hotel management company with a putative class action Wednesday in Florida federal court, claiming he and other workers had not received overtime pay they were entitled to under U.S. labor law. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:28:48 +0000 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/307674 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/307674 An ex-Bank of America Corp. loan officer lodged a putative class action Tuesday in California accusing his former employer of failing to compensate workers in his position for overtime and paying less than minimum wage by falsely categorizing the job as exempt. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:25:20 +0000 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/307576 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/307576 The National Labor Relations Board rushed and cut corners as it worked to finalize a controversial rule aimed at streamlining union elections because it feared losing the three-member quorum it needed to act, the Society For Human Resource Management and other groups said Tuesday. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:40:44 +0000 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/307653 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/307653 CVS Pharmacy Inc. on Tuesday asked a federal judge to nix a putative class action over the company's failure to provide cashiers in its California stores with seats, saying that the job requires standing and moving. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:01:48 +0000 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/306917 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/306917 A Kansas federal judge granted class status to a group of loan officers on Monday in a wage lawsuit accusing Stonegate Mortgage Corp. of paying only commissions and not for hours worked. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:00:06 +0000 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/306451 http://www.law360.com/employment/articles/306451 Raytheon Co. on Wednesday sought to convince the Federal Circuit that its trade secret misappropriation claims against rival defense contractor Indigo Systems Corp., which it accuses of poaching employees who took confidential information with them, are not time-barred.