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April 26, 2024
In the past year, plaintiffs have won settlements and judgments for millions and billions of dollars from companies such as Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Facebook and Fox News, with many high-profile cases finally wrapping up after years of fighting. Such cases — involving over-the-top compensation packages, chemical contamination, gender discrimination and data mining — were led by attorneys whose accomplishments earned them recognition as Law360's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2024.
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April 26, 2024
Foreign farmworkers working in the U.S. under the H-2A temporary visa program will now have enhanced protections to advocate for better working conditions without fear of retaliation under a final U.S. Department of Labor rule unveiled Friday.
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April 26, 2024
A group of construction workers told a New York federal judge Friday that they reached a settlement to end their suit claiming AECOM and one of its units paid them late and owed them overtime, saying the deal would prevent them from being left empty-handed.
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April 26, 2024
A former Massachusetts state trooper convicted of stealing overtime pay, lying on his taxes and cheating to get student aid for his son was sentenced Friday by a federal judge to five years in prison for his leadership role in the sprawling overtime fraud scheme.
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April 26, 2024
A longtime respiratory therapist at a western North Carolina hospital accused the system's owners of manipulating employees' time sheets to remove hours they worked and automatically deducting lunch breaks workers couldn't take in a proposed collective action filed in federal court.
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April 26, 2024
An emergency services provider must follow a deal settling physicians' claims under California's Private Attorneys General Act, a state appeals panel ruled, rejecting the company's argument that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling could have forced those claims into arbitration.
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April 26, 2024
Former and current Southwest flight attendants have asked a California federal judge for class status in their suit claiming the airline punished workers who took family or medical leave by blocking them from improving their disciplinary records, arguing that their allegations are best resolved collectively.
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April 26, 2024
A trucking company that hires owner-operators wants to stop the U.S. Department of Labor's new independent contractor rule from taking effect, saying it replaces a relatively simple test with an open-ended one that makes it unclear whether workers must be treated as employees, opening employers up to wage violations.
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April 26, 2024
The owner and operator of four California restaurants paid more than $254,000 in back wages, damages and fines for willfully denying 10 workers overtime and minimum wages, the U.S. Department of Labor said.
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April 26, 2024
A former BP commodities trader accused the company in Texas federal court of shorting him to the tune of $6 million when it abruptly fired him in January 2022 and paid him a smaller bonus than the $11 million he expected to receive.
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April 26, 2024
A group of mortgage loan officers' claim that Citizens Bank did the math wrong when calculating their overtime can't stand, the bank said, telling a Pennsylvania federal judge that the way it considered commissions in overtime complies with state law.
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April 26, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for a potential ruling on whether to dismiss Wells Fargo & Co. from a proposed wage and hour class and collective action. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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April 26, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission's recently finalized rule imposing a near-total ban on companies making workers sign noncompete agreements marks a seismic change in the legal landscape that will spur new trends in litigation and ease the path for workers to leave jobs they don't like, experts say. Here are three ways the new rule will affect the employment law arena.
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April 26, 2024
This week, the Second Circuit will hear a former TD Bank manager's attempt to revive his suit claiming he was fired from his branch because he requested parental leave and because of his gender. Here, Law360 explores this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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April 26, 2024
A canned and frozen vegetable producer and supplier broke its promise to provide migrant farmworkers with adequate housing, and it deducted excessive amounts from their paychecks for rent and failed to pay overtime wages, according to a proposed collective action in Minnesota federal court.
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April 26, 2024
A parking lot company has agreed to pay a class of almost 300 job seekers $1.4 million to shutter a suit claiming it shirked a Washington pay transparency law requiring that all job postings include salary and benefit information, according to state court filings.
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April 25, 2024
A Texas oil and gas company misclassified electric fracking consultants as independent contractors to avoid paying them overtime wages even though they usually worked 70 to 80 hours per week, a former employee claimed in a proposed collective action filed in federal court.
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April 25, 2024
An appeals board has denied a nonprofit's request for increased payment for janitorial services at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's headquarters following a change to the local county's minimum wage, saying the government was only required to pay the federal prevailing wage.
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April 25, 2024
A phlebotomist supported well enough her claims that a Southern California hospital failed to pay her for all hours worked, a state appeals panel ruled, flipping a trial court's decision tossing her suit.
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April 25, 2024
Pharmaceutical giant Novartis must face a former sales representative's lawsuit alleging her salary was over $20,000 less than a male colleague pitching the same drug, a Colorado federal judge ruled, saying it's unclear whether their responsibilities were distinct enough to explain the difference.
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April 25, 2024
A home health care company will pay nearly $1.6 million in back wages, damages and fines to resolve a U.S. Department of Labor lawsuit accusing the company of failing to pay workers overtime wages, according to papers filed Thursday in Pennsylvania federal court.
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April 25, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor's rule sorting out whether workers' are employees or independent contractors should be left in place because it tackles a lingering misclassification problem, two nonprofits said, urging a Tennessee federal court to disregard two freelance writers' challenge to the rule.
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April 25, 2024
A pizza place in southern Michigan and its delivery drivers have asked a federal judge to revive the workers' wage-and-hour lawsuit, a month after the Sixth Circuit overturned the lower court's ruling on how the drivers should be reimbursed for their work-related car use.
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April 25, 2024
New York recently became the first state in the U.S. to require employers to offer paid sick time for pregnant workers to go to the doctor, and experts said that while it shouldn't be a big adjustment for employers, getting the word out about the new requirement is crucial.
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April 25, 2024
A nurse staffing agency pressed the Fourth Circuit to overturn a lower court's decision ordering the agency to pay workers $9 million in a misclassification suit brought by the U.S. Department of Labor, saying the lower court should have made the government prove the nurses were employees.