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May 06, 2025
A translation services company misclassifies workers as independent contractors to avoid paying them overtime and providing them with other benefits, a worker said in a lawsuit brought under California's Private Attorneys General Act in federal court.
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May 06, 2025
A coming U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a case dealing with whether federal district courts can certify class actions when some members might not be injured could make it much harder for workers to proceed together with wage and hour claims, attorneys said.
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May 06, 2025
A Colorado critical care hospital failed to factor bonuses into overtime calculations, resulting in a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act and unpaid wages, a registration specialist said in a proposed collective action in federal court Tuesday.
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May 06, 2025
Kaufman Dolowich is expanding its West Coast team, bringing in a Litchfield Cavo LLP construction industry litigator as partner in its office in Torrance, California.
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May 06, 2025
University of Utah Health fails to pay customer service workers' wages for the 10 or so minutes they spend each day booting up their computers and logging into the healthcare system's programs, causing their overtime wages to drop, a former worker said in a lawsuit Tuesday.
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May 06, 2025
A New York federal court correctly concluded that there was still an open question of whether field organizers for Michael Bloomberg's 2020 presidential campaign fell under federal wage law, the workers argued, saying there is no need to rethink the decision.
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May 06, 2025
Former employees' bid to certify a class of more than 200 individuals who were abruptly terminated should be rejected, an aviation company told a Florida federal court, saying none of the proposed members reported to the same site and some of the workers were rehired.
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May 05, 2025
A North Carolina federal judge tossed a challenge to a Biden-era regulation that enhanced the organizing rights of seasonal farmworkers with H-2A visas, saying Monday that the U.S. Department of Labor didn't act arbitrarily and capriciously when it issued the regulation.
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May 05, 2025
Four former Twitter executives claiming they are owed $200 million in severance will be able to conduct a search of Elon Musk's text messages, but only when it comes to iMessage and not other messaging platforms like Signal, a California federal judge ruled.
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May 05, 2025
Central Bucks School District in Pennsylvania unfairly paid female teachers less than their male counterparts, in some cases by tens of thousands of dollars despite holding the same jobs, a federal jury was told Monday.
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May 05, 2025
A proposed class encompassing nurses who alleged they were stiffed on wages for meal breaks they didn't get the opportunity to take should not be certified because the workers' experiences are too dissimilar, a health system told an Indiana federal court.
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May 05, 2025
A veteran Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP attorney has brought her labor and employment practice to Vedder Price PC in Miami, the firm announced Monday.
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May 05, 2025
The Second Circuit partly reinstated a former employee's lawsuit against cosmetics company Estee Lauder on Monday, saying she put forward enough details to support her unpaid overtime claims but not her race, gender orientation and age bias allegations.
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May 05, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied review of a shuttered New Jersey nursing home's challenge to the Third Circuit's enforcement of a National Labor Relations Board decision that found the employer unlawfully slashed or ended COVID-19 bonuses for unionized workers.
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May 05, 2025
A packaging company incorrectly omitted bonuses when calculating workers' overtime rates and rounded down their time spent working to reduce their pay, a proposed class and collective action filed in Ohio federal court said.
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May 02, 2025
A California federal judge Thursday preliminarily blessed a $19.9 million deal between companies affiliated with aerospace and defense giant RTX Corp. and workers who accused the company in a putative class action of failing to provide proper wages and breaks, saying the deal was likely fair, reasonable and adequate.
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May 02, 2025
American Airlines urged a Pennsylvania federal court to revoke class certification in a lawsuit claiming the company unlawfully denied pilots pay for time spent on military leave, arguing the case involves too many individual inquiries about whether workers can control when they take time off.
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May 02, 2025
A commercial truck modification company flouted state and federal labor laws by allegedly failing to pay its hourly employees for work beyond their allotted shift times, according to a proposed class and collective action filed in North Carolina federal court.
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May 02, 2025
Elon Musk, his social media platform X and four former company executives claiming they are owed $200 million in severance told a California federal judge that they disagreed on how the billionaire's phone should be searched for discovery purposes.
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May 02, 2025
Some notable Massachusetts state court decisions in April wrestled with a Staples affiliate's jurisdictional challenge in an employment case, a discovery dispute in the state's greenwashing litigation against Exxon involving McKinsey & Co., and an insurer's effort to be let off the hook for representing a lawyer in a malpractice claim.
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May 02, 2025
Yale University has illegally paid salaried employees on a monthly basis instead of weekly or bi-weekly, as required in Connecticut, according to a putative class action in state court.
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May 02, 2025
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division will stop enforcing a former President Joe Biden-era final rule determining whether workers are independent contractors or employees under federal law, the agency announced, as three federal courts paused suits challenging the rule.
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May 02, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for the potential preliminary approval of a $12 million deal to resolve a proposed wage and hour class action against Delta Air Lines Inc. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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May 01, 2025
A California federal judge granted preliminary approval Wednesday to a group of roughly 1,000 Division I volunteer baseball coaches for their settlement under which the NCAA would pay $49.5 million to resolve their proposed antitrust class action challenging a since-repealed "uniform wage fix" bylaw.
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May 01, 2025
A former construction company employee can't appeal an order denying his class certification motion in a putative wage and hour class action, a California state appeals court has ruled, finding it does not qualify under the so-called death knell doctrine because Private Attorneys General Act claims remained active when he appealed.