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May 03, 2024
In the coming week, a federal magistrate judge will consider whether to grant class certification to New York income tax preparers who claim they were denied overtime pay due to their employer's practice of paying them on commissions. Here, Law360 explores this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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May 03, 2024
A Florida federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit a former flight attendant lodged against Spirit Airlines accusing it of firing her after she complained that its medical leave policies ran afoul of the Family and Medical Leave Act.
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May 03, 2024
Two food distributors who created corporate entities while working for a food service business must arbitrate claims they were misclassified as independent contractors because a Federal Arbitration Act carveout doesn't apply to businesses, a Connecticut federal judge has ruled.
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May 03, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for oral arguments before the California Supreme Court on the issue of the right of workers bringing a case under the state's Private Attorneys General Act to intervene in a separate matter. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in the Golden State.
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May 03, 2024
A California state appeals court in a rehearing declined to sustain demurrers a lower court had granted to several companies that argued they could not be sued as joint employers in a worker's wage and hour lawsuit, finding the worker's claim had enough evidence to take shape.
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May 03, 2024
An operator of group homes for people with disabilities will shell out approximately $191,000 to end a U.S. Department of Labor suit claiming it failed to pay workers minimum wage and overtime, as a Michigan federal judge signed off on the deal Friday.
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May 03, 2024
Delivery drivers asked a Vermont federal judge not to grant Bimbo Bakeries' bid to appeal a decision that their collective can span three states, saying it's too early to get the Second Circuit's opinion because the collective members haven't even opted into the misclassification suit yet.
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May 03, 2024
Massachusetts is a hot spot for wage and hour issues, with state courts approaching decisions in gig worker battles and voters potentially weighing in this fall on proposed statewide measures regarding app-based drivers and the tipped minimum wage. Here, Law360 explores three key issues to watch.
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May 02, 2024
A subsidiary of restaurant food distributor Sysco Corp. will pay over $133,000 in back pay to resolve the U.S. Department of Labor's allegations that it discriminated against women by failing to hire qualified female applicants to fill open warehouse positions in Palmetto, Florida, the agency said Thursday.
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May 02, 2024
Nationwide kidney care service provider DaVita Inc. has urged a Colorado federal judge to reject a bid by nurses and technicians to merge their wage class action with another suit, arguing Wednesday the plaintiffs are seeking to "circumvent" earlier rulings limiting the case's reach.
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May 02, 2024
A network of California poultry processors will pay over $5 million to settle a U.S. Department of Labor lawsuit in federal court after an agency investigation found the processors employed children to debone poultry and failed to pay over 475 workers overtime.
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May 02, 2024
A California state court rightly tossed a class action by two drivers accusing a transportation company of wage violations, a state appeals panel ruled, backing the lower court's finding that the case likely would not have been able to proceed to trial within five years of the complaint being filed.
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May 02, 2024
The full Eleventh Circuit won't weigh in on a panel's ruling that a Florida county wasn't three golf course attendants' employer, denying on Thursday the workers' bid for rehearing.
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May 02, 2024
Over the past month, the scope of a federal exemption to arbitration has evolved as appellate courts have refined an important access point for workers to pursue their claims in court. Here, Law360 looks at several cases that have recently made waves in federal arbitration.
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May 02, 2024
A former Seyfarth Shaw LLP partner has joined a solo practitioner's employment law firm in Atlanta with the goal of handling plaintiffs employment litigation and trade secret and noncompete matters while capitalizing on the use of generative artificial intelligence.
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May 02, 2024
North Carolina Democrats have proposed broad legislation to bolster protections for employees in the Tar Heel State — from abolishing at-will employment to repealing the ban on collective bargaining for public employees and shoring up safeguards for contract workers.
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May 02, 2024
A Maryland home care company that provides adult rehabilitation services paid nearly $539,000 in back wages and damages for denying 37 direct support staff their full wages, the U.S. Department of Labor announced.
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May 02, 2024
A group of construction groups didn't show how a final rule regulating prevailing wages hurts them, and halting the rule wouldn't be in the public's interest, the U.S. Department of Labor told a Texas federal court.
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May 02, 2024
A Michigan hospital has been automatically deducting a 30-minute meal break from nurses and technicians' shifts though they were frequently unable to take the full break uninterrupted, violating overtime laws, a former nurse claimed in a federal suit.
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May 01, 2024
Class actions have been steadily increasing over the past decade, with two firms from New Jersey and New York filing the most suits over the past three years, according to a new Lex Machina report surveying the class action field.
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May 01, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Wednesday seemed poised to start a second trial to determine whether drivers of Uber's high-end ride-share option are independent contractors or employees after a jury deadlocked on the issue in March.
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May 01, 2024
A New York federal judge adopted a magistrate judge's recommendation Wednesday to enter a more than $940,000 default win against a contracting company because it didn't respond to a lawsuit by construction workers, finding no issues with the detailed report.
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May 01, 2024
The Third Circuit's view that time putting on and taking off personal protective equipment becomes compensable if the gear is integral and indispensable to employees' work actually aligns with a Second Circuit's standard, oil rig workers told the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday.
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May 01, 2024
Five home care providers in Louisiana paid more than $422,000 for denying workers their full wages, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Wednesday.
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May 01, 2024
Certain interstate truck drivers remain exempt from overtime under federal labor law, even as the U.S. Department of Labor has issued a new final rule addressing overtime exemptions for other workers. Here, Law360 explores the motor carrier exemption.