May 26, 2022
When the Ninth Circuit threw out a $102 million penalty against Walmart for California Labor Code violations last May, it adopted a threshold that workers who sue as a proxy for the state have to clear, a review of lower court rulings that rely on its precedent shows.
January 19, 2022
A group of employees can pursue claims as a class that Home Depot didn't properly pay them overtime, after a California federal judge turned down the home repair chain's argument that certain employees overestimated their overtime.
September 13, 2021
Home Depot fought a class certification bid by a group of employees who claim they were not properly paid overtime, telling a California federal court that certain employees overestimated the amount of overtime they worked.
August 18, 2021
Home Depot improperly failed to account for certain bonuses when calculating overtime pay, a California federal court ruled in a proposed class action, saying the home improvement retailer wrongly considered the bonuses percentage-based and therefore excluded from overtime math requirements.