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May 01, 2024
Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su defended her U.S. Department of Labor role and recent agency rules at a U.S. House committee hearing on Wednesday from Republicans who accused her of serving through a "loophole" and who questioned the legality of actions under her leadership.
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May 01, 2024
A financial services company laid off a human resources worker after she took federal medical leave and in retaliation for her repeated complaints about pay disparities between herself and younger, male employees, according to a lawsuit filed in Colorado federal court.
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May 01, 2024
The former second-in-command of a Massachusetts state police traffic safety unit was sentenced to three years in prison for his role in a widespread conspiracy to steal federally funded overtime through no-work shifts.
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May 01, 2024
An Alabama insurance agency will pay a settlement to end a claims adjuster's suit accusing it of failing to pay adjusters overtime wages for time they spent inspecting and assessing property damage, according to court papers.
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May 01, 2024
A Pennsylvania school district can't snag a win on claims that it paid women teachers less than their male colleagues because it is clear that while the teachers performed comparable work, the pay was different, the women told a federal court.
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May 01, 2024
The Seventh Circuit declined to give an Illinois city diversity officer a second chance at her sex bias suit that claimed she was terminated after complaining that male co-workers were paid more for lighter workloads, ruling she didn't adequately back up her allegations.
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May 01, 2024
An ex-worker for a Texas oil field equipment supply company signed a valid agreement to arbitrate any employment disputes, the company said in asking a federal judge to send his unpaid overtime claims into arbitration.
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April 30, 2024
A new U.S. Department of Labor regulation boosting labor protections for H-2A visa workers has industry experts worried that it could frustrate a common practice of sharing employees within the agricultural industry, and pose hiring challenges for farmers and ranchers.
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April 30, 2024
Kroger and Albertsons told an Oregon federal court to reject a pending merger challenge by the Federal Trade Commission and a group of states, saying it distorts the competitive landscape for the grocery and labor markets.
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April 30, 2024
A worker didn't enter an arbitration agreement with the oil and gas production company it accused of misclassifying him as an independent contractor and therefore an intervenor staffing company can't push the suit out of court, a New Mexico federal judge ruled.
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April 30, 2024
A Washington federal judge tossed a job applicant's state pay transparency suit against a rent-to-own retailer, ruling the job-seeker didn't prove how the company's failure to include pay information in a job listing negatively affected him.
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April 30, 2024
President Joe Biden's minimum hourly wage increase for federal contractors to $15 is intertwined with furthering the economy and is therefore supported by the Procurement Act, a split Tenth Circuit panel ruled Tuesday, agreeing with a Colorado federal court to keep the wage bump.
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April 30, 2024
A nonprofit in Texas paid more than $52,000 in back wages for denying 134 workers with disabilities the subminimum wage rate, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Tuesday.
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April 30, 2024
A New York federal judge rejected a proposed $100,000 settlement between IHOP franchises and an ex-waiter accusing them of paying servers' overtime wages with tips, saying several nonmonetary terms seem unfair and that "money can buy a lot of things, but not a license to violate the law."
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April 30, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor urged the Seventh Circuit to affirm a lower court's ruling that a staffing firm must pay tradespeople for travel time between overnight jobs during normal working hours, and asked the court to extend the ruling to apply to travel outside regular work hours.
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April 30, 2024
Arbitration agreements workers must sign as a job requirement may be found unenforceable if they include a fee-shifting provision that could make the out-of-court process so costly that they chill enforcement of employment laws, attorneys told Law360.
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April 29, 2024
Employers should audit their compensation data and get ahead of morale challenges to prepare for complying with the U.S. Department of Labor's just-released final rule on overtime-exempt professionals. Here, Law360 offers tips for employers to manage workforce changes related to the new regulation.
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April 29, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor's rule determining whether workers are employees or independent contractors is confusing and lacks reason, a slew of business groups told a Texas federal court, backing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other entities' bid to nix the rule.
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April 29, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor and two restaurant groups told the Fifth Circuit on Monday that they agreed the department's rule regulating what's tipped and nontipped work "is fundamentally a line-drawing problem," but disagreed on whether that "line" had been drawn appropriately under federal statutes.
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April 29, 2024
A former manager said he was illegally let go for speaking up about Hallmark's alleged violations of a minimum wage ordinance, telling a California state court Monday that the greeting card giant terminated him for supposedly saying an expletive when profanity use is "embedded in Hallmark's culture."
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April 29, 2024
A Bronx, New York, medical college urged a federal judge to throw out a former research coordinator's proposed class and collective action alleging he and his co-workers worked 45- to 50-hour weeks without overtime wages, saying the ex-worker didn't point to specific weeks in which he failed to receive overtime.
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April 29, 2024
Wells Fargo has for years enforced a companywide policy that denies overtime pay to workers tasked with opening and closing its branches, according to a lawsuit filed by a former employee at one of the bank's Atlanta-area locations.
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April 29, 2024
A California federal court gave the first sign-off to a $1 million deal that would end hundreds of strawberry pickers' claims that they were forced to work at unsafe speeds for allegedly little pay.
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April 29, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor issued guidance Monday on how employers can carefully use artificial intelligence, saying a lack of human eyes could create a domino effect and lead to violations of federal wage and leave laws.
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April 29, 2024
A Georgia federal judge has refused to approve a settlement between a corporate office furnisher and a former employee who says he was fired after complaining about being stiffed for hundreds of hours of compensable work, finding two provisions in the deal make it impossible to approve.