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May 23, 2025
Elevance cannot add up all potential class members' claims to put the total cost of future damages over the required amount to keep a case in federal court, a worker said in asking that her wage and hour case be sent back to Connecticut state court.
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May 23, 2025
The U.S. Department of Labor announced Friday a new acting administrator as well as four policy advisers to serve in the agency's division tasked with ensuring employers pay their employees in line with federal minimum wage and overtime laws.
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May 23, 2025
A Choate Hall & Stewart LLP partner has joined Cooley LLP's labor and employment practice and global litigation department in Boston.
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May 23, 2025
An Illinois law mandating benefits for long-term temporary workers will stay in place as amended because the staffing agencies challenging it are not likely to succeed on their claims that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act preempted it, a federal judge ruled.
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May 23, 2025
Ruby Tuesday fired a bartender while she was out on medical leave recovering from a broken hip that she sustained in a car accident and refused to let her return to her former role, she said in a suit filed in North Carolina federal court.
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May 23, 2025
Wage and hour claims may not be the first issues that spring to a worker's mind following a layoff, but since they can be filed on a group basis and give the worker the benefit of the doubt, they are low-hanging litigation fruit for worker advocates.
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May 22, 2025
A suit by a group of nurses accusing a Colorado health system of miscalculating their overtime will stay fully in place, a federal judge ruled, agreeing with a magistrate judge's recommendation not to dismiss the Colorado Minimum Wage Act claim.
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May 22, 2025
Addiction treatment centers in Ohio and Tennessee reached a nearly $738,000 settlement to resolve lawsuits from workers accusing the centers of failing to pay them overtime wages and provide them with meal breaks, a filing in federal court said.
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May 22, 2025
A Bronx man has filed proposed class actions in New Jersey state court against two Garden State country clubs accusing them of failing to pay caddies minimum wage or overtime.
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May 22, 2025
A Georgia county should not be able to end a fire battalion chief's suit alleging unpaid overtime, the firefighter told a federal court, arguing that the work he performed was not managerial in nature.
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May 22, 2025
The company behind OshKosh B'gosh reached a $660,000 settlement to resolve a Private Attorneys General Act lawsuit accusing it of requiring employees to work through their meal breaks and shorting them on overtime wages, a filing in California federal court said.
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May 22, 2025
The Second Circuit on Thursday declined to reinstate a lawsuit from New York court interpreters alleging they are paid less than their federal counterparts because they are foreign born, saying the workers failed to show the state's court system acted with discriminatory intent.
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May 22, 2025
A California federal judge granted preliminary approval to a $3.95 million settlement to a wage and hour class action against Quest Diagnostics Clinical Laboratories Inc., saying the deal adequately resolves allegations that the company violated the rest-break provision of the state's Labor Code.
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May 22, 2025
Two Atlanta strip clubs facing allegations that they stiffed workers on their pay called for the employees' counsel to be disqualified on Wednesday, arguing that the attorneys can't simultaneously represent both a dancer and a supervisor who effectively operated as an employer and agent of the clubs.
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May 22, 2025
Seyfarth Shaw LLP added a partner to its labor and employment department from Perkins Coie LLP who says the firm's resources will help him tackle the growing number of wage and hour class actions Washington state has been witnessing.
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May 22, 2025
A filing error should not spell demise for a former Virginia city prosecutor's Family and Medical Leave Act claims against the city, his counsel told a federal court, saying the claims should be reinstated because they were never intended to be conceded.
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May 22, 2025
Massachusetts' top court on Thursday found that an employer may still face a discrimination claim for an alleged retaliatory action for union activity, even if the move left the worker with a pay bump.
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May 21, 2025
Counsel for a food supply company urged the California Supreme Court on Wednesday to find the Federal Arbitration Act preempts a state statute automatically waiving arbitration rights for a party that doesn't timely pay arbitration fees, saying the law is so draconian that even an earthquake wouldn't excuse late payment.
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May 21, 2025
A Virginia city is off the hook in an attorney's lawsuit claiming he was fired after requesting leave to care for his mother, a federal court ruled Wednesday, finding the attorney's failure to respond to the city's filings requires his claims be dismissed.
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May 21, 2025
CSX Transportation Inc. does not have to face class and collective claims alleging its attendance and pay policies unlawfully penalize engineers, conductors and switchmen who take medical leave, as two workers told an Ohio federal court Wednesday they are abandoning their class allegations.
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May 21, 2025
Two aviation companies and a fuel pumper told a California federal court that they reached a deal in a case that took a trip to the U.S. Supreme Court, in which the worker claimed unpaid wages under California's Private Attorneys General Act.
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May 21, 2025
Legal advocacy group Democracy Forward has added a former deputy associate U.S. attorney general and co-chair of the Supreme Court and appellate practice at WilmerHale to its ranks of former U.S. Department of Justice litigators.
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May 21, 2025
The U.S. Department of Labor under President Donald Trump has already proceeded with unwinding the previous administration’s wage and hour rules, creating a shifting landscape for workers, employers and their attorneys. Here, Law360 explores ways in which rules can go away.
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May 20, 2025
A Georgia craft brewery and its owner have been sued in federal court by three current employees who allege that they have not been paid proper minimum wages over the last three years.
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May 20, 2025
A driver and two U.S. Postal Service contractors told a New York federal court Tuesday that they agreed to end the worker's suit claiming he was paid late under New York Labor Law.