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August 15, 2024
Two legal services organizations told the U.S. Supreme Court that holding employers to a higher standard to prove their employees are overtime-exempt would break a legislative balance and clash with federal law, backing an international food distributor's challenge to a Fourth Circuit ruling.
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August 15, 2024
A Virginia-based home healthcare company will pay nearly $1.5 million to end a U.S. Department of Labor suit alleging it denied workers their overtime wages, according to court papers.
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August 15, 2024
Assistant branch managers hold executive duties and are therefore exempt from earning overtime, Enterprise told a Massachusetts federal court in its bid to dodge a former worker's lawsuit alleging the car-rental company wrongly misclassified him as overtime-exempt, which resulted in him missing out on extra pay.
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August 15, 2024
An international food distributor told the U.S. Supreme Court that subjecting employers to a higher standard in order to claim that certain workers are overtime-exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act would have serious ramifications in employment law, urging the justices to follow Congress' directions.
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August 14, 2024
Four Republican-led states defended Kroger's proposed $25 billion acquisition of Albertsons in an amicus brief Wednesday, telling the Oregon federal judge overseeing the Federal Trade Commission's challenge to the deal that blocking it would actually "weaken, not protect, competition."
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August 14, 2024
A former Navistar employee can pursue wage claims against the manufacturer for allegedly mishandling meal breaks and shift differentials when calculating her pay, but she'll need to beef up allegations regarding protective gear to pursue those in the suit, an Illinois federal judge said Tuesday.
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August 14, 2024
A Michigan federal judge chided a Detroit strip club's lawyer Wednesday for trying to parse whether a dancer's name was "normal" or sounded like a stage name, saying the question had no bearing on whether the club waited too long to try to force her wage claims into arbitration.
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August 14, 2024
A Nevada federal magistrate judge has struck two blows against a home healthcare staffing executive facing criminal charges of fixing nurses' wages and hiding that probe when selling the business for $12.5 million, as the judge refused to break up the allegations and recommended against dismissing the fraud counts.
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August 14, 2024
An Ohio state appeals court declined to rule on a union's appeal in its suit over whether the state's prevailing wage law pertains to the construction of a college dormitory by a public university because the union sued in the wrong county, avoiding deciding a matter of first impression.
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August 14, 2024
An energy company's environmental, health and safety specialist's overtime suit must head back to the Texas federal court that ruled the worker wasn't overtime-exempt, a Fifth Circuit panel ruled, following a separate circuit panel's decision tackling what constitutes a salary.
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August 14, 2024
A Seventh Circuit decision in a forced labor suit against the Salvation Army highlights how, when a work relationship falls outside traditional employment paradigms, perceptions of the parties at issue drive the legal outcome, attorneys say.
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August 14, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor exceeded its authority by instituting a new rule that increases salary thresholds for overtime exemptions for administrative, executive and professional employees, a Christian schools association said in a new lawsuit filed in Tennessee federal court that seeks to block the regulation.
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August 14, 2024
A West Palm Beach, Florida, law firm has asked a federal judge to dismiss a former paralegal's wage and retaliation suit, arguing her independent contractor status and failure to report unpaid work make her claims unviable.
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August 14, 2024
A crude oil hauler said a Fifth Circuit panel overlooked the Motor Carrier Act's text and instead relied on a "morass of confusing tests" when it ruled she was overtime-exempt, urging the full appeals court to step in.
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August 14, 2024
Two restaurants in Arizona will pay nearly $31,000 in fines to settle a U.S. Department of Labor suit alleging they let minors operate dangerous machinery and work longer than permitted, according to court documents.
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August 14, 2024
A California federal judge threw out a proposed class action a former worker lodged against Office Depot accusing it of failing to compensate him for his overtime hours and not providing workers with proper breaks, saying the allegations are low on details.
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August 13, 2024
A job applicant on Monday dropped her proposed class action accusing Aramark of failing to include full pay ranges in job postings in violation of Washington state's wage transparency law.
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August 13, 2024
Kroger and Albertsons have assailed the Federal Trade Commission's challenge to their merger, telling an Oregon federal judge that there's no need to preliminarily block the deal because the agency is pushing a "never before applied" theory that reducing head-to-head competition is illegal, which the grocery stores said is undone by the law and the companies' planned divestiture of 579 stores.
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August 13, 2024
Former NBA player David West and his attorney have joined a growing chorus of opposition to the NCAA's more than $2 billion proposed name, image and likeness settlement with college athletes, arguing it circumvents collective bargaining.
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August 13, 2024
An administrative proceeding two former executives launched with the U.S. Department of Labor against Comcast accusing it of reneging on millions of dollars in incentive bonuses and violating federal securities laws is bogus, the telecommunications company said in a new lawsuit filed in Virginia federal court.
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August 13, 2024
Tesla’s failed attempt to use California’s anti-SLAPP law to escape personnel record claims shows the statute can be an unreliable defense strategy in wage and hour litigation, attorneys said. Here, Law360 explores such anti-SLAPP motions.
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August 13, 2024
A Virginia federal judge signed off on a $1 million deal Tuesday between a customer experience company and two workers to settle a proposed class and collective action claiming the employer neglected to pay employees for time spent working during lunch breaks and logging into and shutting down computer systems.
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August 13, 2024
A freight transportation company and a former employee alerted a California federal court they reached a deal to resolve a proposed class action alleging the employer violated state labor law by failing to pay workers all their overtime wages and provide them with rest periods.
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August 13, 2024
U.S. Customs and Border Protection will pay $45 million to wrap up a class action brought on behalf of 1,000 workers who said the agency forced them onto light duty because they became pregnant, the workers' attorneys said Tuesday.
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August 13, 2024
Former Virginia labor department head Courtney M. Malveaux has joined McGuireWoods LLP, the firm announced Tuesday, with the seasoned U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration expert saying he hopes to draw on his experience to help employers going through crisis and incident responses.