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April 05, 2024
A Colorado federal judge gave a Nebraska beef wholesaler another chance to petition for dismissal from a class action accusing it of participating in a meat industry wage-fixing scheme, after the company filed a motion that didn't follow the court's page limit.
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April 05, 2024
Two former warehouse workers hit Tesla with a proposed wage and hour class action Thursday in California federal court, alleging the electric carmaker violated labor laws by not providing sufficient break time, operating an illegal quota system and failing to pay all of their wages.
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April 05, 2024
A chauffeur company and a collective of drivers accusing it of failing to pay them all their overtime wages told an Arizona federal judge Friday that they reached a settlement and asked the court to cancel a jury trial that was scheduled for April 16.
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April 05, 2024
A school district asked a Pennsylvania federal judge Friday to toss or at least decertify a collective action alleging it paid male teachers more than women who had similar experience, arguing that the workers couldn't show they had enough in common to justify a group action.
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April 05, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor joined a U.S. Department of Justice pledge to enforce civil rights and related federal laws in the use of automated tools like artificial intelligence.
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April 05, 2024
A controversial bill going before Golden State voters in November has employment attorneys divided over its plan to replace California's Private Attorneys General Act with new legislation doubling penalties for willful labor-law violators, but leaving enforcement solely to a state agency that has proven ineffective in the past.
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April 05, 2024
Reger Rizzo & Darnall LLP has been sued in Pennsylvania federal court by a former firm legal assistant alleging racial and sex discrimination, and claiming that a hostile, harassing and retaliatory work environment caused her to leave her job.
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April 05, 2024
The Second Circuit rejected a U.S. Department of Labor request that it publish a nonprecedential opinion concluding that a nurse staffing company's so-called loser-pays arbitration clause was invalid under federal labor law.
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April 05, 2024
This week, the Second Circuit will consider a dental hygienist's challenge to a New York federal judge's decision to order a new trial over sexual harassment claims against her former employer that resulted in a jury awarding her $1 in damages. Here, Law360 explores this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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April 05, 2024
A Texas federal judge refused to send a former swimming pool technician's unpaid overtime suit into arbitration, agreeing with a magistrate judge that an arbitration agreement the worker had to sign wasn't valid because his employer never signed it.
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April 05, 2024
A small change Colorado made to its paid sick leave requirement is an example of how the state works with employers to ease compliance, observers told Law360.
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April 04, 2024
A challenge to an Illinois law mandating that many temporary workers receive equivalent benefits to long-term employees has been stayed, as a federal court allowed the state to appeal an order preliminarily blocking the statute.
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April 04, 2024
Nurses who abruptly canceled or gave inconsistent testimony at their depositions must pay the hospital they accused of underpaying them nearly $10,000 in sanctions for their lack of cooperation, a Louisiana federal judge ruled Thursday.
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April 04, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor told the Ninth Circuit that President Joe Biden had the authority to raise the hourly minimum wage for federal contractors to $15, arguing Thursday that well-settled law confirms that the Procurement Act gives the president broad authority.
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April 04, 2024
A Virginia federal judge tossed a former client manager's lawsuit alleging the solar power company he worked for fired him after he emailed his supervisor about missing commission payments, saying the email was expressing complaints about compensation owed under a contract, rather than owed under federal law.
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April 04, 2024
The owners of a group of Domino's Pizza franchises have been hit with a putative collective action in Pennsylvania federal court from an ex-delivery driver claiming drivers at their stores are paid less than minimum wage because of their "flawed" policy of reimbursing mileage expenses.
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April 04, 2024
A Colorado meter servicing company owes utility locators wages for work they were required to perform before arriving at their work sites and after leaving them, a former worker alleged in a proposed class action filed in state court, saying workers did not receive overtime.
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April 04, 2024
Workers suing kidney care giant DaVita Inc. have asked a Colorado federal judge to consolidate two similar collective actions alleging they were denied wages for work performed during meal and rest breaks, saying overlap between the cases is "inevitable."
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April 04, 2024
Newly formed Pierson Ferdinand LLP has added a high-stakes employment litigator to its Philadelphia office from Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP.
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April 04, 2024
A mortuary in Oklahoma City paid nearly $463,000 for denying 66 workers, many of whom worked more than 50 hours a week, overtime rates, the U.S. Department of Labor announced.
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April 04, 2024
A hotel in Michigan will pay $110,000 in back wages and damages to settle a U.S. Department of Labor suit accusing it of not paying workers their full wages, according to an order in Michigan federal court.
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April 04, 2024
A telecommunications company did not pay its tower technicians all their wages owed, a group of ex-workers alleged in a proposed collective action in Illinois federal court, saying the company deducted meal breaks they worked through and skimped on overtime premiums.
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April 04, 2024
The full Ninth Circuit won't review a panel's decision ruling that a Lowe's worker's nonindividual claims under California's Private Attorneys General Act could stay in court while her individual claims go into arbitration, denying the company's bid to step in.
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April 04, 2024
A filmmaker for ABC and Disney repeatedly ignored a multiracial development director's complaints that she was underpaid and eventually fired her for speaking up about bias and harassment she faced on the job, she said in a suit in California state court.
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April 04, 2024
When industry groups challenge U.S. Department of Labor wage and hour rules, they often choose as counsel former agency officials who say their prior knowledge gives them a unique ability to take on regulations. Here, Law360 explores the trend.