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April 09, 2024
A California federal judge gave the green light to a $4 million class action settlement resolving allegations that an insurance and risk management company didn't closely track workers' hours, which resulted in underpayment for over 2,100 workers.
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April 09, 2024
A federal judge has refused to let agricultural businesses gather more information on the decision-making behind new H-2A agricultural worker minimum wages, rejecting claims that more discovery was warranted in light of a September order allowing the wages to take hold.
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April 09, 2024
A California federal judge declined to entirely toss a Black former UPS employee's race and pregnancy discrimination suit, saying she had evidence of "extreme and outrageous" racist comments to back up her race bias claims but not enough proof to support her sex-based pay and pregnancy discrimination allegations.
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April 08, 2024
Two Mexican farmworkers are asking a Virginia federal court to greenlight their $900,000 settlement with an agricultural association and two farms that they say cheated temporary workers out of $2.5 million in overtime pay.
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April 08, 2024
An Ohio federal judge sent a proposed collective action by a former Ford Motor Co. plant worker to the Eastern District of Michigan on Monday after the worker and the auto manufacturer said the case is better dealt with near Ford's headquarters in Detroit.
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April 08, 2024
Two workers asked a California federal court to deny a request from X, formerly Twitter, to pause discovery in their suit alleging it stiffed employees on $500 million in severance pay when it conducted mass layoffs following Elon Musk's takeover, saying the move will create unnecessary delay.
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April 08, 2024
A civil marine contractor successfully convinced a California federal judge to toss an ex-worker's wage and hour proposed class action for lack of evidence, but the judge left the door open for the worker to refile the suit.
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April 08, 2024
A Missouri federal judge tossed a black worker's suit Monday claiming the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs subjected him to a racially hostile work environment and suspended him for complaining about it, ruling he didn't put forward proof that bias drove the agency's decision making.
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April 08, 2024
A former employee for Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson Inc. claimed the company failed to pay its hourly tower technicians for missed meal breaks or for all the hours they spent completing mandatory training, according to a proposed collective action filed in a Massachusetts federal court.
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April 08, 2024
A former employee of a company that designs and manufactures radiation detection devices accused the firm in Connecticut federal court of breaching state law by prohibiting him from discussing his pay with his colleagues and of firing him for telling a friend about receiving a raise.
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April 08, 2024
A California federal court rejected a delivery company's bid to bring a third-party complaint against a worker's LLC after the worker sued the delivery company alleging it misclassified him as an independent contractor, saying allowing the complaint would be contrary to public policy.
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April 08, 2024
A security system sales company will need court approval to contact potential opt-in members of a putative worker collective, as a Utah federal judge found that the company inappropriately pressured an ex-employee to settle his Fair Labor Standards Act claims.
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April 08, 2024
The California Fast Food Council has a mandate to reform the fast-food industry, and coming off its first meeting, employment law practitioners have questions about how it can improve upon the state's already robust regulations and whether it will be balanced. Here, Law360 explores three such questions for the council as it gets up and running.
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April 08, 2024
A pharmacy company has not been including shift differentials or bonuses in overtime wage calculations for hourly workers, a former employee alleged in a proposed collective action filed in New Jersey federal court.
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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.