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June 04, 2024
A Third Circuit panel on Tuesday seemed skeptical that a New Jersey law geared toward protecting temporary workers was unconstitutionally protectionist, despite an apparent acknowledgment of industry groups' fears that it could destroy the temp staffing agency industry in the Garden State.
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June 04, 2024
An Illinois federal judge denied an ex-utility worker's "perplexing" bid to toss his own wage lawsuit soon after his former employer filed a motion for judgment, rejecting the worker's argument that the court lacks jurisdiction over his proposed class action against the utility locating services company.
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June 04, 2024
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has opened an office in Fresno, California, absorbing a location previously operated by Raimondo Miller ALC and its five attorneys, the firm has announced.
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June 04, 2024
A small Texas marketing company said the U.S. Department of Labor's final rule raising the salary thresholds to consider employees overtime-exempt under federal law unlawfully disregards long-standing requirements, urging a federal court to put it aside.
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June 04, 2024
Texas is seeking to block the U.S. Department of Labor's new rule increasing salary thresholds for overtime exemptions for administrative, executive and professional employees, saying in a suit filed in federal court that labor law is silent on salary thresholds for that exemption.
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June 04, 2024
Even before going into effect, California's new healthcare worker minimum wage is generating complex legal questions about its scope and predictions of legal clashes to come.
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June 03, 2024
An independent platform said that an upcoming Colorado rule requiring it to consider employees the substitute teachers it helps schools find will hurt its business, urging a Colorado state court to halt the new policy going into effect on July 1.
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June 03, 2024
An Oregon federal judge denied Kroger and Albertsons' requests for more information on the markets at issue in the Federal Trade Commission's ongoing attempt to block their merger, saying the companies' request is premature and excessively broad.
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June 03, 2024
El Pollo Loco did not provide a former assistant manager with meal breaks or overtime or pay him the full wages he was promised, and store managers mocked him for requesting leave to tend to his ailing mother, the ex-worker alleged in a complaint filed in state court.
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June 03, 2024
DHL and its direct courier services told a Washington federal court they have agreed to shell out $1 million to a group of drivers who claimed they were paid a flat daily rate that did not include overtime.
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June 03, 2024
The relevance of the federal minimum wage, which trails the floor in more than half of U.S. states, remains up for debate, as a recent government report says the share of hourly workers making that national amount continues to decline.
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June 03, 2024
Employer-side law firm Fisher Phillips announced Monday that it added a new of counsel to its Tampa, Florida, office who was previously a shareholder and founder of a boutique employment law firm.
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June 03, 2024
A Tennessee federal judge approved a confidential deal ending a retired nurse's claims that Vanderbilt University Medical Center failed to pay patient-facing employees for meal breaks they had to work through nor properly track their hours after the timekeeping system went offline.
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June 03, 2024
An initiative to raise the hourly minimum wage in Michigan to $15 by 2027 will stay off the 2024 ballot, the state Supreme Court ruled, turning down a group's bid to force the state canvassers board to certify the proposal.
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June 03, 2024
A New York federal judge granted class certification to a group of workers for two Manhattan Chinese restaurants who claim they were forced to share tips with nontipped co-workers and underpaid, finding the restaurants' policies similarly affected all tipped workers.
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June 03, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a case asking how to decide when an employer must pay employees for time they spend on preshift tasks that are necessary for them to do their jobs.
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June 01, 2024
As the calendar flips over to June, the U.S. Supreme Court still has heaps of cases to decide on issues ranging from trademark registration rules to judicial deference and presidential immunity. Here, Law360 looks at 10 of the most important topics the court has yet to decide.
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May 31, 2024
What constitutes a bona fide salary for overtime-exempt professionals continues to be a source for debate, and a recent Fifth Circuit decision affirms long-standing principles behind federal salary regulations while presaging future battles around whether those regulations are valid, attorneys say.
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May 31, 2024
Several cases are heating up the Third Circuit argument calendar in June, including a home care company's attempt to duck a $7 million payout to thousands of workers who claimed the company violated the Fair Labor Standards Act by not compensating them for travel time.
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May 31, 2024
A nonprofit representing shipping industry employers and a Washington state marine terminal operator have not been providing longshoremen with paid sick leave in violation of state wage law and a Seattle city ordinance, a longshoreman told a state court.
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May 31, 2024
A former maintenance worker has agreed in principle to settle his proposed wage theft collective action against a New York City landlord and its property manager, according to a letter filed Friday in New York federal court.
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May 31, 2024
This week, a New York federal judge will hear arguments over the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees' attempt to force a film production company to make wage and benefits payments the union claims it has not made as required under an arbitration award.
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May 31, 2024
A former assistant women's tennis coach at Boston College says the head coach of the program "set out on a campaign to undermine and alienate" her out of professional jealousy and gender bias, alleging she was fired in retaliation after complaining to administrators.
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May 31, 2024
An updated version of a City of Manchester ordinance requires four police officers to pay the city back for the sick leave benefits they received while their compensation claims for on-the-job injuries were pending, a split New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled.
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May 31, 2024
A commercial litigator's plan to refocus her practice on employment law prompted a recent move to Steptoe & Johnson PLLC's Pittsburgh office after more than eight years with Sherrard German & Kelly P.C.