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June 12, 2025
Efforts to increase minimum wage by industry or by doing away with subminimum tipped wages are coming up against an economy in flux and the proliferation of automation and artificial intelligence — placing low-wage workers in a precarious position despite these gains, attorneys say.
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June 12, 2025
A shoe retailer requires store managers to put in work outside of the store handling staffing and operations matters on top of the 40 hours of work they put in each week at the store, a proposed collective action filed in North Carolina federal court said.
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June 12, 2025
A National Labor Relations Board judge cleared Exxon Mobil of claims that it mishandled a hefty backlog of grievances, but found the company ducked its obligation to bargain before ending manager fill-in pay for some workers and changing its performance assessments.
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June 12, 2025
The largest aviation ground handling service in North America has been sued in Georgia federal court by a woman who alleges she was pressured to speak with a male manager about her reproductive issues after requesting medical leave, then fired once that leave was approved.
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June 12, 2025
Two workers can intervene in a case that reached a $10 million proposed settlement to end wage claims against CVS, a divided Ninth Circuit panel said, ruling that the duo asked to weigh in on time and have a significant interest in some claims the deal solves.
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June 12, 2025
The Eighth Circuit should affirm an order declining to temporarily block a Minnesota law from taking effect that slaps steep fines on companies that misclassify employees as independent contractors, a labor organization said, because workers' wages will continue to be eroded without the statute.
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June 12, 2025
Commercial vehicle manufacturer Navistar Inc. will pay $450,000 to resolve a former employee's collective action accusing it of failing to incorporate bonus payments in overtime pay calculations, thus causing workers' wages to fall, a filing in Illinois federal court said.
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June 12, 2025
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has launched a new practice group that will focus on using data-driven tools to advise employers on various workforce compliance and risk assessment matters.
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June 12, 2025
An aide's proposed class action alleging she should have been compensated for the time she spent traveling between clients' homes should be thrown out, a home health company told an Ohio federal court, saying she failed to show that the commute was related to her primary duties.
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June 11, 2025
Two porters put forward enough information to show they and other cleaners and janitors working for a building services company were subject to the same policies that resulted in them being shorted on wages to proceed as a collective, a New York federal judge said Wednesday.
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June 11, 2025
Vedder Price PC has bulked up its New York office with the addition of an intellectual property attorney from Vinson & Elkins LLP and an executive compensation and employee benefits pro from Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP.
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June 11, 2025
A Houston plumbing contractor will have to shell out $102,000 in back wages and damages to 31 service technicians and apprentice helpers it considered overtime-exempt, the U.S. Department of Labor said.
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June 11, 2025
President Donald Trump's nominees for key roles in the U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will stand before a Senate committee next week, the panel said Wednesday.
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June 11, 2025
Supermarket chain Foodtown failed to pay workers overtime wages or provide them with meal periods, and it allowed a franchise owner to choke and hit a general manager, a proposed collective action filed in New York federal court said.
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June 11, 2025
A Las Vegas drywall contractor will pay more than $824,000 to resolve a U.S. Department of Labor investigation into allegations that it failed to pay overtime wages to piece-rate and hourly paid employees, the department said.
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June 10, 2025
The University of Scranton wants a Pennsylvania federal judge to dismiss retaliation and disability bias allegations from a police sergeant who alleged he was fired because he had cancer, telling the district court that the worker hadn't put up enough facts to support some of his claims.
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June 10, 2025
A janitor in California must arbitrate her claims that a cleaning services company owed minimum wages and didn't give rest breaks, a federal magistrate judge ruled Tuesday, finding a grievance process in an unsigned collective bargaining agreement still covers the worker's claims.
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June 10, 2025
A recent Council of the District of Columbia decision to delay phasing out the local tipped minimum wage demonstrates apprehension about eliminating the tip credit, employer-side observers said, while worker advocates said they are still seeing progress on the issue.
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June 10, 2025
A T-Mobile technician cannot keep his unpaid overtime lawsuit in court, a Washington federal judge ruled Tuesday, saying he failed to show that he was duped into signing a delegation clause that mandated issues surrounding the arbitrability of his claims be decided outside court.
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June 10, 2025
Renowned soup producer Campbell's failed to pay production workers for the time they spent putting on personal protective equipment before their shifts, a former company's filler operator said in a proposed collective action in New Jersey federal court.
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June 10, 2025
Hundreds of private attorneys in Massachusetts who are paid by the state to represent indigent defendants and others have stopped accepting new court-appointed cases over complaints about low pay, putting the system on what one veteran advocate called "the verge of imploding."
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June 10, 2025
An attorney who has focused his career on advising clients on employment and labor matters recently moved his practice to Fisher Phillips' Pittsburgh office after 13 years with Reed Smith LLP.
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June 10, 2025
Pension credits bought by military service members aren't an accrued benefit under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, Nevada's public employee retirement system argued, urging the Ninth Circuit not to revive the U.S. Department of Justice's suit alleging the state and system overcharged employees for the credits.
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June 10, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to weigh in on a case that would have had an impact on a former Amazon employee's request for class status in her military leave suit, the worker told a New York federal court, saying it should reopen her suit and approve class treatment.
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June 10, 2025
FedEx exercised substantial control over drivers' jobs, two former workers told a Pennsylvania federal court, urging it to find that the delivery company acted as their joint employer and is therefore on the hook for what they said are unpaid overtime wages.