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May 13, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court won't intervene in a pending Massachusetts lawsuit against the operator of a freight rail line over whether its employees are covered by the state's Prevailing Wage Act, declining Monday to review the case.
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May 13, 2024
A home healthcare company in Indianapolis paid more than $151,000 in back wages and damages for denying 32 workers overtime rates, the U.S. Department of Labor announced.
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May 13, 2024
A delivery company urged an Ohio federal judge not to allow a package courier to appeal to the Sixth Circuit the decertification of a collective of workers alleging the company misclassified them as independent contractors, saying the appeal would not hasten the end of the dispute.
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May 10, 2024
A Washington state judge has ordered a healthcare system to pay nearly $230 million to 33,000 workers, doubling the damages a jury awarded to the employees in April based on the company's "willful" violations of wage law.
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May 10, 2024
A Black doctor must arbitrate her claims that she was mistreated by non-Black colleagues at a home healthcare company and fired after raising concerns that it was sidestepping Medicare billing regulations, a California federal judge ruled, finding an arbitration agreement she signed is legitimate.
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May 10, 2024
An American Airlines employee is trying again on a claim that the company owes him overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act, telling an Arizona federal judge Friday that the latest version of his complaint shows he's covered by the FLSA, not the Railway Labor Act.
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May 10, 2024
The delta between criminal wage theft and civil wage and hour violations is large, but unpacking the differences between them offers important lessons about intent and the power of the penal code to deter bad behavior, attorneys say.
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May 10, 2024
Macy's can't compel arbitration of nonindividual claims in a worker's wage suit brought under California's Private Attorneys General Act, the Ninth Circuit ruled Friday, saying language in an arbitration pact prevents blending together different types of claims.
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May 10, 2024
MAC Cosmetics Inc. did not reimburse employees for the time and money spent on makeup, hair and outfit requirements for promotional events and meeting the company's beauty standards, according to a proposed collective action complaint filed in Arizona federal court.
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May 10, 2024
Three delivery drivers for Pepperidge Farm are independent contractors, not employees, and thus cannot sue the company for state wage and hour law violations, a Third Circuit panel ruled Friday, saying the drivers' daily responsibilities make it clear they are self-employed.
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May 10, 2024
This week, the Second Circuit is scheduled to consider a former Ramapo, New York, police officer's lawsuit claiming the town discriminated against her on the basis of her race and gender when it did not assign her a light duty assignment after she returned to the job from an injury. Here, Law360 explores this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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May 10, 2024
A group of 11 New York City Police Department dog handlers must revise their unpaid overtime lawsuit to reflect the actual time they allegedly spent at home taking care of their dogs in order to stake a plausible claim for unpaid overtime, a federal judge ruled.
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May 10, 2024
P.F. Chang's can file settlement papers with dollar amounts shielded from public view as the restaurant chain looks to resolve a 5-year-old suit accusing it of cheating more than 6,000 tipped servers out of wages, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled.
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May 10, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in a former police chief's First Amendment case. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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May 10, 2024
Pennsylvania wage law requires employers to pay workers overtime rates that include all compensation earned, including commissions, a group of workers accusing Citizens Bank of underpaying overtime wages told a federal judge, urging the court to deny the bank's request for a win.
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May 10, 2024
Cases that were in the judicial pipeline when the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a ruling on what workers qualify for a carveout from federal arbitration law are poised to be among the first that apply its holding. Here, Law360 discusses three cases that were frozen in anticipation of the high court's decision.
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May 09, 2024
CSX Transportation Inc. has been hit with a Florida federal lawsuit brought by its workers, who allege in their proposed class action that the rail company discouraged them from lawfully using the Family and Medical Leave Act, including by punishing them for taking advantage of the law.
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May 09, 2024
An Albany, New York-based health system can escape, for now, a proposed collective claim alleging it denied workers overtime wages, a federal judge ruled Thursday, while preserving a claim that it forced employees to work through their lunch breaks.
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May 09, 2024
A Tennessee county snagged a partial decertification win in a lawsuit accusing it of not properly paying a variety of workers within its sheriff's office, after a federal judge ruled that the workers' differences in jobs prevent collective treatment.
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May 09, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor can keep pursuing a suit alleging two staffing agencies drew employees' compensation below minimum wage by implementing contractual clawbacks if employees didn't stay for more than three years, a New York federal judge ruled.
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May 09, 2024
A federal judge refused Thursday to grant the Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs a win in a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice, saying a jury could find that the state agency lowballed an applicant for a director position because she's a woman.
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May 09, 2024
An Indiana federal judge issued an injunction barring a multistate liquor store operator from violating federal labor law after the U.S. Department of Labor accused it of flouting a previous back wage settlement by coercing workers to accept less money than they were owed.
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May 09, 2024
A Sixth Circuit panel questioned on Thursday a National Labor Relations Board decision finding a Michigan nursing home violated federal labor law with its handling of temporary hazard pay and staffing during the COVID-19 pandemic, with judges appearing skeptical the company had to bargain over the changes.
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May 09, 2024
Civil monetary penalties aren’t high enough to deter employers from violating wage and hour laws, Democrats in Congress are saying ahead of planned legislation, though employers’ attorneys argue that existing fines are adequate. Here, Law360 explores the penalties debate.
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May 09, 2024
A First Circuit judge said Thursday that a plumbing supply distributor arguing that its inside sales representatives don't qualify for overtime pay appears to be "running as fast as you can to get away" from a key recent precedent.