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June 13, 2024
Massachusetts' highest court on Thursday gave its blessing to a November ballot question asking voters to increase the state's minimum wage for tipped workers, finding that pairing the measure with a provision to allow tip pooling is part of an overall public policy goal to boost wages for all service industry employees.
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June 13, 2024
A Los Angeles residential care company must pay nearly $659,000 in back wages, damages and fines for denying workers their full wages, the California Labor Commissioner's Office announced Thursday.
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June 12, 2024
A cannabis retail chain in New Mexico is accused of unlawfully taking tips from its budtenders under the premise that the money would be donated to a charity, according to a proposed class action filed Wednesday in federal court.
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June 12, 2024
A New York state court has undercut a provision in a since-expired affordable housing tax break that enabled a city watchdog to issue judgments against developers who underpaid construction workers, deeming the provision unconstitutional because decisions could not be appealed.
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June 12, 2024
Nearly 16,000 Amazon drivers filed arbitration claims against the e-commerce giant with the American Arbitration Association this week seeking unpaid wages and compensation for work-related expenses because of their misclassification as independent contractors.
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June 12, 2024
A Connecticut restaurant group and its leaders ordered workers to lie to federal investigators during a wage and hour probe and threatened to kill an ex-worker for helping the U.S. Department of Labor, the agency said in a complaint filed in federal court.
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June 12, 2024
A cemetery and funeral services company can't compel arbitration of two former employees' Private Attorneys General Act lawsuit because the arbitration pacts it gave them are "unconscionable," a split a California appellate panel ruled, affirming a trial court's decision.
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June 12, 2024
A former Wendy's employee who accused the company and multiple related entities of failing to provide proper private space for workers to pump breast milk despite federal labor laws requiring them to do so has permanently dropped her claims from Ohio federal court.
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June 12, 2024
A Nebraska construction company operating in California must pay nearly $353,000 in back wages and fines for denying 43 workers their full wages and rights under the H-2A temporary worker program, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Wednesday.
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June 12, 2024
A Texas personal injury law firm misclassified a paralegal as an independent contractor and its director constantly changed the paralegal's time sheets, resulting in unpaid wages, she told a Texas federal court.
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June 12, 2024
A federal magistrate judge advised tossing an unpaid overtime lawsuit against a California cold storage company that specializes in packing agricultural goods, but said the worker should have an opportunity to flesh out their claims.
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June 12, 2024
The owner of IHOP franchises in Illinois owes more than $568,000 in back wages, damages and fines for denying workers their full tips and wages, the U.S. Department of Labor said in a complaint.
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June 11, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor's final rule including protections for foreign farmworkers within the H-2A visa program doesn't comport with federal labor law, a group of Republican attorneys general claimed in Georgia federal court, saying the rule doesn't give the same rights to U.S. citizen workers.
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June 11, 2024
A full Ninth Circuit ruling that California's Assembly Bill 5 doesn't violate certain businesses' equal protection rights is, for now, likely the end to yet another argument parties have used to challenge the worker classification law.
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June 11, 2024
House and Senate Democrats reintroduced legislation Tuesday that would do away with mandatory workplace arbitration agreements, a move they said would counteract a 2018 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that said requiring solo arbitration in worker disputes didn't violate federal labor law.
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June 11, 2024
A California federal court ruled that although a group of workers accusing Home Depot of unpaid overtime set forth enough new evidence to reconsider a win the home improvement chain snagged, the workers didn't sustain their arguments that the company purposely tried to dodge overtime laws.
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June 11, 2024
The attorneys representing workers accusing restaurant chain Famous Dave's of violating tip regulations will need to justify why they are trying to get a portion of unclaimed funds in an almost $1 million deal, a Maryland federal judge ruled.
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June 11, 2024
A North Carolina federal judge has awarded a class of truck drivers for a shredding company just under $242,000 in attorney fees on top of a $725,000 settlement to resolve claims the company deducted pay for meal breaks they did not take.
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June 11, 2024
A California federal judge placed the final stamp of approval on a $2.4 million deal ending class claims that Labcorp failed to pay overtime wages for the time carriers spent driving to and from locations and violated state meal and break laws.
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June 11, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal judge tossed a lawsuit Tuesday from a high school lacrosse coach who said her contract wasn't renewed because of gender, age and disability bias, finding the school district showed that its decision stemmed from concerns about her professionalism.
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June 11, 2024
A childcare center custodian can continue with his claim that the center operators failed to pay him weekly wages as state law requires for workers who perform manual labor, a New York federal judge ruled, but cut his claim that the center didn't provide proper wage notices.
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June 11, 2024
A South Florida strip club operator will pay $165,000 to dancers who claimed they were misclassified as independent contractors and denied minimum wages, under a settlement agreement approved by a federal judge.
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June 11, 2024
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP has hired as a partner for its employment law practice an attorney with prior private practice experience who has also worked for multiple companies and a labor union during her more than 20-year career.
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June 11, 2024
Two restaurant franchise locations in New Mexico paid more than $254,000 in back wages, damages and fines for keeping a portion of workers' tips and denying them minimum and overtime wage rates, the U.S. Department of Labor announced.
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June 11, 2024
Twelve current and former Tesla employees will need to bring claims that they worked through meal and rest breaks to an arbitrator, a California federal judge ruled, rejecting arguments that their signatures on arbitration pacts were forged.