Employment lawyers should keep an eye on future battlegrounds for wage and hour actions that include the reliance on staffing agencies, the changing status of domestic workers, and the proliferation of app-based work, attorneys said.
According to a new report from the National Bureau of Economic Research, bombastic job titles deceptively give the impression that an employee is exempt from overtime by virtue of being a manager, costing workers $4 billion a year in unpaid wages, or about $3,200 per person.
Texas lawmakers will consider a handful of worker-friendly bills this legislative session, including minimum wage and pay equity proposals. Here, Law360 explores these bills and what they signify for the Lone Star State.
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Employment lawyers should keep an eye on future battlegrounds for wage and hour actions that include the reliance on staffing agencies, the changing status of domestic workers, and the proliferation of app-based work, attorneys said.
According to a new report from the National Bureau of Economic Research, bombastic job titles deceptively give the impression that an employee is exempt from overtime by virtue of being a manager, costing workers $4 billion a year in unpaid wages, or about $3,200 per person.
Texas lawmakers will consider a handful of worker-friendly bills this legislative session, including minimum wage and pay equity proposals. Here, Law360 explores these bills and what they signify for the Lone Star State.
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February 02, 2023
A Hyatt hotel in Long Beach, California, violated state and municipal protections for cleaning staff by overworking them, underpaying them and denying them their mandatory rest breaks, a pair of cleaning workers alleged in a proposed class action filed in state court.
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February 02, 2023
A Denver, Colorado, landscaping company will pay 14 workers $203,332 in back pay and lose its ability to hire workers on H-2B visas for five years, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
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February 02, 2023
Two workers and the environmental company they sued, claiming a supervisor clocked them out to avoid paying overtime, asked a North Carolina federal court to delay discovery, saying handing out certain information should wait until a collective certification bid.
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February 02, 2023
An Asheville, North Carolina, gift and novelty wholesaler will pay $287,923 to 152 workers who were not paid their full overtime wages, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Thursday.
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February 02, 2023
Under Armour and a worker who accused the company of miscalculating its employees' overtime rate and failing to adequately pay for skipped meal and rest breaks agreed to kick their federal court-based dispute to a California state court to pave the way for a settlement.
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February 02, 2023
The American Association for Justice urged the Ninth Circuit to restore its decision exempting from arbitration Domino's truck drivers who transport items in-state because the journey involves interstate commerce, the second filing from an outside party supporting the drivers' bid to reinstate the ruling.
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February 02, 2023
Vitamin Shoppe staffing problems forced employees to work through their meal and rest breaks, ultimately leading to unpaid overtime, two former employees said in a proposed class and collective action in California federal court.
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February 02, 2023
Cannabis dispensary workers at Curaleaf Holdings asked an Illinois federal judge to certify a class in their suit claiming managers at locations around the country stole the contents of tip jars, saying the company's unified management structure supported the class allegations.
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February 01, 2023
An Arizona federal judge gutted a Black U.S. Bank employee's discrimination and retaliation suit alleging she was refused a space to pump breast milk and denied career advancement opportunities, leaving only her race and sex bias claims intact over allegedly denied overtime.
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February 01, 2023
The operators of several nursing and rehabilitation facilities were within their rights to scrap their tentative $15 million offer to settle a U.S. Department of Labor lawsuit alleging they underpaid workers, a Pennsylvania federal judge held Wednesday.
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February 01, 2023
A bipartisan coalition of U.S. senators proposed legislation Wednesday that would severely limit the ability of employers to enforce noncompete agreements with most employees.
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February 01, 2023
Lichten & Liss-Riordan PC added a Chicago-based partner to its employment and labor practice Wednesday, expanding the firm's national reach and strengthening its leadership in worker-side class actions.
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February 01, 2023
A New York hospital couldn't convince a contracting board that $5.4 million worth of bonuses provided to front-line staff during the COVID-19 pandemic were reimbursable by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, after the board found nothing in the hospital's policies mandating the hazard pay.
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February 01, 2023
A Florida sleep testing and treatment center did not pay a former worker for the time he spent training to be a sleep technician, he said in a proposed class action filed in federal court.
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February 01, 2023
The Ninth Circuit restored a class action accusing Alaska Airlines of discriminating against pilots on short-term military leave by shorting them on pay, ruling Wednesday that a trial court improperly resolved factual disputes that should have been left to a jury.
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February 01, 2023
One of three owners of a Virginia linen cleaning company charged in an alleged labor trafficking scheme has pled guilty to his role in the conspiracy, which prosecutors say involved shipping undocumented immigrants from Central America to Virginia and forcing them to work for low wages under threat of deportation or physical violence.
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February 01, 2023
Armstrong Teasdale LLP is heading west, announcing Wednesday that it will launch its first California office with the help of a former Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP employment attorney who is joining as a partner in the new location.
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February 01, 2023
Several worker-side attorneys groups asked the full Federal Circuit to reconsider two decisions ruling that federal employees weren't entitled to extra back pay after receiving late paychecks during government shutdowns, saying the decisions clashed with settled law.
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February 01, 2023
An operator of 180 Pizza Hut franchises so undercompensates its delivery drivers for their vehicle expenses that it pushes their wages below the federal minimum, two workers alleged in a proposed class and collective action filed in Connecticut federal court.
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February 01, 2023
Former delivery drivers for a Pennsylvania medical cannabis company told a federal court that their claims that they were unlawfully misclassified as independent contractors and denied overtime wages are strong enough to survive a dismissal bid.
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February 01, 2023
A Seventh Circuit panel backed a Wisconsin federal court's dismissal of a former dentist office manager's suit accusing the office of failing to pay her for her lunch breaks, saying the worker was not owed pay because she was not working during that time.
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February 01, 2023
Atlanta-based Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC announced Tuesday new leadership will be taking the helm of the labor and employment firm beginning in 2024, including the firm's first female managing shareholder.
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January 31, 2023
A doctor alleged that she was pushed out of her job at a cancer center after she raised concerns about repeat patient safety issues, and that the facility paid male doctors more than their female colleagues, according to her suit filed Tuesday in New York federal court.
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January 31, 2023
A sales firm for affordable health insurance plans failed to provide its staff with overtime compensation despite routinely requiring overtime work, a worker alleged in a proposed collective action filed Tuesday in Florida federal court.
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January 31, 2023
A computer and cellphone accessory manufacturer's inflexible return-to-office mandate represented an illegal refusal to accommodate a disability, a worker with a severe anxiety disorder told a Georgia federal court.