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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.
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June 11, 2024
A Black former pizza delivery driver for a Papa John's franchise can pursue his claims that he faced a hostile work environment and was underreimbursed for mileage, an Alabama federal judge ruled, but the judge limited the methods the worker can use to prove his allegations.
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June 10, 2024
A movement to tackle discriminatory pay gaps has swept the U.S. in recent years as nearly half of states have enacted bans on salary history requests while almost a dozen have issued laws that require employers to share what they're willing to pay for a position. Law360 has created an interactive, nationwide map tracking these salary history bans and pay transparency requirements.
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June 10, 2024
Uber Black drivers on Monday tried for a second time to convince a Pennsylvania federal jury that the ride-sharing company owes them the same perks as employees, saying they're nothing like plumbers, the quintessential independent contractors.
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June 10, 2024
The migrant contractor staff that cleaned a Colorado luxury hotel slammed the hotel's efforts to escape claims of underpaying its workers, telling a Colorado federal court Monday that the hotel set the terms of their employment.
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June 10, 2024
The California Legislature had a plausible reason for creating certain carveouts from a state law governing whether workers are employees or independent contractors, the full Ninth Circuit ruled Monday, departing from a panel's decision that Assembly Bill 5 disfavors companies such as Uber.
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June 10, 2024
Cozen O'Connor has been booted off a Pennsylvania school district's equal-pay lawsuit that was being overseen by a judge with personal ties to the firm, according to an order the judge issued Monday.
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June 10, 2024
FordHarrison LLP announced that it made associate hires across five of the employment law firm's office locations including Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
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June 10, 2024
A labor and employment attorney who spent nearly two decades at Duane Morris LLP has rejoined the firm after working at Cooley LLP the past few years.
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June 10, 2024
A firefighter was late to accuse Los Angeles County of failing to pay new firefighters for the time they spent quarantining during the COVID-19 pandemic while training, a California federal judge ruled, granting the county an early win.
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June 10, 2024
A New Jersey federal judge rejected UPS' request to toss claims that the delivery company should pay warehouse workers for the time they spent undergoing security screenings before their shifts started, court records show.
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June 10, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday again declined to weigh in on the exemption to overtime pay under federal labor law for salaried workers in a case dealing with whether extra compensation on top of a salary does away with exemption status.
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June 07, 2024
There is no doubt that the New Jersey Temp Worker Bill of Rights will upend the temp industry in the Garden State, and while a new challenge on the benefits pay provision may succeed, temp worker equal pay is likely here to stay, attorneys said.
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June 07, 2024
An Illinois federal judge has certified a class of exotic dancers who claim they were misclassified as independent contractors and compensated only in tips from customers and not in wages as employees, in violation of federal and state labor laws.
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June 07, 2024
A Washington, D.C.-area janitorial company and a group of workers told a federal judge Friday they agreed to end a collective action accusing the company of underpaying overtime wages through off-the-books payments for hours worked over 40.
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June 07, 2024
A package-receiving service for apartment buildings has agreed to pay over $150,000 to settle the Washington, D.C., attorney general office's investigation into allegations that workers who spent more than half their time in the city were misclassified by the company as independent contractors.
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June 07, 2024
A New Jersey federal judge ordered the state Friday to show why a new law broadening protections for temporary workers should stay in place, after a group of business associations raised new arguments that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act preempts the law.
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June 07, 2024
Cozen O'Connor brought on a veteran employment lawyer from Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC in Boston, who comes with experience working in the public sector that he said allows him to help companies navigate any type of employment suit that comes their way.
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June 07, 2024
A Washington federal judge sent to arbitration a proposed class action accusing Walmart of misclassifying its app-based delivery workers as independent contractors, saying the workers signed valid arbitration agreements.
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June 07, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for the potential initial sign-off on a more than $3.6 million deal to resolve a proposed wage and hour class action against freight carrier Oak Harbor Freight Lines Inc. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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June 07, 2024
Denny's has agreed to pay more than $437,000 to end a class action accusing it of failing to properly inform a group of more than 100 servers it would be taking a tip credit from their wages, according to a filing in Pennsylvania federal court.
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June 07, 2024
The Labor Management Relations Act doesn't preempt a driver's suit accusing two cold storage companies of wage and breaks violations, a California federal judge ruled, sending the case back to state court.
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June 06, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission urged an administrative law judge on Tuesday to require Kroger to fork over documents related to negotiations for its divestiture plan amid the commission's in-house challenge to the grocer's merger with Albertsons, saying Kroger's prior representations that it would produce the materials "have proven false."