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April 23, 2024
Los Angeles County firefighters urged a California federal judge to deny the county's bid for an early win in their suit alleging they weren't paid for time they spent quarantined in hotels during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying the motion attempts to use the courts as a "pawn to escape liability."
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April 23, 2024
An Apple Store in Oklahoma City has agreed to restore the sick time of workers who took off for COVID-19 since last August, pursuant to a recently announced settlement of an unfair labor practice charge filed by the workers' union.
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April 23, 2024
A Virginia concrete contractor owes nearly $1.2 million in back wages, damages and fines for denying 81 workers their full pay, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Tuesday.
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April 23, 2024
A company that provides security for Walmart and an ex-worker told a Texas federal court they've agreed to end a lawsuit accusing the company of failing to pay guards overtime despite working 60 to 70 hours a week, and asked the court to close the case.
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April 23, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor on Tuesday released its long-awaited final rule raising the salary thresholds for overtime exemptions, solidifying aspects of a proposal that faced opposition from Republicans and business groups.
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April 22, 2024
A proposed class of former employees of Twitter, now known as X, cannot yet force the company to move forward with their various employment claims in arbitration, a California federal judge determined Monday, saying the issue of class certification needs to be decided first.
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April 22, 2024
Three Uber drivers claiming they're unlawfully classified as independent contractors and therefore paid illegally must arbitrate those proposed collective claims, but one driver who fought the issue in a previous case can pursue his claim in court, an Illinois federal judge said Monday.
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April 22, 2024
With its budget passage Saturday, New York became the first state in the U.S. to implement paid leave for pregnant employees to attend doctors' appointments, expanding its paid sick time requirements to create a new bank of up to 20 hours for this purpose.
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April 22, 2024
Quest Diagnostics hasn't been paying its call center agents for off-the-clock work, such as the time it takes them to log into computer systems and shut down the programs, an ex-worker alleged in a proposed collective action filed Monday in New Jersey federal court.
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April 22, 2024
A United Airlines subsidiary providing cleaning services on planes failed to properly pay cabin workers for the nonscheduled overtime they worked, according to a proposed class action the company removed to Colorado federal court.
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April 22, 2024
Former Comcast cable installation technicians asked a Pennsylvania federal judge Monday to formally dismiss a proposed class action alleging a subsidiary of the company failed to pay for work completed before and after their shifts and during meal breaks, saying they reached a settlement.
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April 22, 2024
The California Supreme Court on Monday ruled that pretrial detainees who work while in jail are not entitled to minimum wage and overtime claims under California's labor law, finding the state's penal code permitting such work covers nonconvicted individuals.
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April 22, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court tackled Monday whether courts should stay or dismiss suits headed to arbitration, with some justices appearing skeptical of the argument that tossing the suits burdens courts less than pausing litigation.
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April 22, 2024
An Ohio transportation services company will pay $25,000 in back wages and liquidated damages to end a U.S. Department of Labor suit accusing it of stiffing workers on overtime wages, according to court papers filed Monday.
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April 22, 2024
High-end fashion brand Comme Des Garçons asked a New York federal judge to toss recordkeeping claims that a proposed collective of employees brought as part of their suit alleging they were misclassified as managers and denied overtime wages, calling the claims derivative of the overtime allegations.
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April 22, 2024
A Baltimore roofing company will pay $100,000 in back wages and liquidated damages to settle a U.S. Department of Labor suit alleging it denied workers overtime wages, according to court papers filed Monday.
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April 22, 2024
State legislatures around the country are winding down legislative sessions that began in January, bringing newly enacted employment laws into effect in the coming months. From child labor to pay inequality to mandatory overtime, Law360 looks at five state laws that employers will have to comply with.
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April 22, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied Amazon's bid to review a Ninth Circuit decision on whether last-mile delivery drivers are exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act.
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April 22, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to again examine a carveout to a federal arbitration law for interstate transportation workers, in a case involving baked goods delivery drivers, after already issuing a decision in a similar case.
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April 22, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday passed on reviewing whether Domino's Pizza truck drivers are interstate transportation workers who are exempt from federal arbitration requirements, declining to pave the way for a ruling that could have expanded or narrowed the arbitration carveout.
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April 19, 2024
Uber Technologies and Lyft Inc. asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a California appellate court's decision rejecting their efforts to force into arbitration coordinated litigation alleging they misclassified drivers as independent contractors, saying the Golden State is trying to "create a loophole" in the Federal Arbitration Act.
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April 19, 2024
A Washington state court ruled Friday that workers of a Seattle-area hospital system still have to prove that their employer's timekeeping and meal break policies violated state law, even though an affiliated healthcare system with policies the employees alleged were "virtually the same" was found liable in a similar case.
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April 19, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court will return Monday for the term's final week of oral arguments, during which it will consider several high-stakes disputes, including whether a federal healthcare law can preempt state abortion bans and whether former President Donald Trump is entitled to immunity from criminal charges related to official acts.
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April 19, 2024
A U.S. Supreme Court might have changed the arbitration landscape in suits involving California's Private Attorneys General Act, but Wedbush Securities Inc. still waited too long to try pushing out of court financial advisers' claims, a California state appeals court ruled.
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April 19, 2024
A package courier asked an Ohio federal judge Friday to greenlight an appeal to the Sixth Circuit regarding the decertification of a collective of workers alleging a delivery company misclassified them as independent contractors and denied them overtime pay, saying an appeal could expedite the lawsuit.