Eleventh-hour deals to keep proposed ballot measures in California and Massachusetts from going to voters show that some wage and hour issues are significant enough for companies and worker advocates to reach compromises, attorneys said. Here, Law360 explores those recent deals.
In the first half of 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court decided a pair of cases addressing arbitration in wage and hour litigation, the Sixth Circuit weighed minimum wage for pizza delivery drivers and a New York decision created an appellate split on timely pay requirements. Here, Law360 recaps those rulings and four other major decisions so far this year.
By ending its term with a stinging combination against federal agencies, the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative bloc left behind a bruised bureaucracy and a regulatory system that's now vulnerable to a barrage of incoming attacks.
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Eleventh-hour deals to keep proposed ballot measures in California and Massachusetts from going to voters show that some wage and hour issues are significant enough for companies and worker advocates to reach compromises, attorneys said. Here, Law360 explores those recent deals.
In the first half of 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court decided a pair of cases addressing arbitration in wage and hour litigation, the Sixth Circuit weighed minimum wage for pizza delivery drivers and a New York decision created an appellate split on timely pay requirements. Here, Law360 recaps those rulings and four other major decisions so far this year.
By ending its term with a stinging combination against federal agencies, the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative bloc left behind a bruised bureaucracy and a regulatory system that's now vulnerable to a barrage of incoming attacks.
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July 03, 2024
Five workers told a New Jersey federal judge they agreed to put to rest their suit against a disaster recovery company and a waterfront building company claiming they should have been paid prevailing wages while clearing roadways and waterways in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
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July 03, 2024
A medical product seller urged the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday to reverse a lower court's determination that a worker is exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act, saying the wage claims should still be sent to arbitration under a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling clarifying which employees qualify for the exemption.
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July 03, 2024
A Washington federal judge tossed a job hopeful's suit claiming healthcare companies shirked state pay transparency laws by failing to disclose salary information in job postings, finding that the applicant didn't show he was actually harmed by the missing compensation figures.
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July 03, 2024
Microsoft agreed to shell out $14.4 million to end a California Civil Rights Department's lawsuit claiming that it discriminated against employees who take protected employment leaves, the department announced Wednesday.
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July 03, 2024
Restaurant groups suing to block a 2021 U.S. Department of Labor rule cracking down on when tipped workers can be paid subminimum wages filed a notice in the Fifth Circuit saying the court should follow the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision stating courts can independently interpret agencies' rules.
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July 03, 2024
Massachusetts state courts last month dealt with thorny contract disputes, mistakenly disclosed emails between a defendant and an attorney, and a company's overtime policy change that may not have been spelled out to workers.
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July 03, 2024
New York litigation boutique Coffey Modica LLP announced the promotion of two attorneys to partner, including the firm's first hire in 2021, as well as the elevation of another lawyer to counsel.
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July 03, 2024
Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP has hired a former deputy attorney general for the California Department of Justice, who is joining from Greenspoon Marder LLP where she led that firm's employment litigation group, the firm announced Wednesday.
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July 03, 2024
The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision pushing deadlines to challenge federal regulations doesn't entirely solve an overtime dispute between three home care companies and the U.S. Department of Labor, the government told the Third Circuit.
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July 03, 2024
This term, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Chevron deference, a precedent established 40 years ago that said when judges could defer to federal agencies' interpretations of law in rulemaking. Here, catch up with Law360's coverage of what is likely to happen next.
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July 03, 2024
Nevada has a new minimum wage structure, thanks to a voter-approved ballot question that eliminated a two-tier wage floor that depended on whether an employer offered insurance benefits.
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July 02, 2024
Massachusetts voters will decide in November whether to give app-based drivers the right to unionize after supporters of a proposed ballot initiative submitted a batch of signatures to the state Tuesday, the Service Employees International Union announced.
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July 02, 2024
Walgreens workers can move forward as a class in a lawsuit alleging that the pharmacy chain didn't pay their final paychecks on time, an Oregon federal judge ruled while setting up specific limits on who can join the suit.
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July 02, 2024
A New York county can't dodge a former assistant district attorney's suit claiming she was unlawfully fired for requesting time off following her husband's cancer diagnosis, with a federal judge ruling more information is needed to determine whether she was misled about her eligibility for leave.
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July 02, 2024
A California state appeals court found a wage and hour lawsuit against a tax credit firm was brought in bad faith because the worker lacked evidence to support her allegations, upholding a lower court's ruling and awarding attorney fees and costs to the firm.
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July 02, 2024
The Second Circuit declined Tuesday to undo the tossing of an antitrust lawsuit brought by a Broadway producer who accused a stage workers union of illegally putting him on a "do not work" list, ruling that the union is shielded from liability since it acted in legitimate self-interest.
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July 02, 2024
A Philadelphia home care company will pay more than $179,000 in back wages, damages and fines to end a U.S. Department of Labor suit alleging it failed to pay workers overtime rates, according to court papers.
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July 02, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision killing the Chevron doctrine shows that the U.S. Department of Labor couldn't toss a Trump-era rule determining workers' independent contractor status and issue a new one, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other groups told a Texas court.
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July 02, 2024
A healthcare staffing company urged a Virginia federal judge to toss a proposed collective action accusing it of automatically deducting meal breaks from workers' time sheets and requiring them to perform off-the-clock work, arguing the worker who brought the suit signed a pact to arbitrate any employment disputes.
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July 02, 2024
The Fifth Circuit asked the U.S. Department of Labor and a Dairy Queen franchisee to address how the recent U.S. Supreme Court's decision nixing the Chevron doctrine affects a challenge to the department's overtime rule.
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July 02, 2024
Three home care companies in overtime disputes with the U.S. Department of Labor urged the Third Circuit to reverse and remand a ruling that they waited too long to challenge a 2013 ruling on in-home caregivers' ability to earn minimum wage under a new U.S. Supreme Court precedent.
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July 01, 2024
Eight young app developers have sued "Heartless" rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, his company and its former chief of staff, conservative firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos, in California federal court, alleging they fostered a hostile and abusive working environment, subjecting them to "extreme racism," bullying and harassment without pay.
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July 01, 2024
A jury awarded $1.4 million in damages for unpaid bonuses to a former marketing director for a biotechnology-focused venture capital company after a retrial on the damages award, unanimously granting the ex-executive almost the same amount as an earlier award that a New York federal judge opposed.
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July 01, 2024
A Texas federal judge refused Monday to grant a marketing company's request to block a U.S. Department of Labor rule that raises the salary thresholds for claiming overtime-exemption under federal law, saying the firm failed to show it will be harmed by the new standards.
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July 01, 2024
A trucking company and a group of drivers have reached a deal in a suit that started in 2020 claiming that workers received a "per-ton" compensation that ignored overtime, a Kentucky federal judge has said.