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July 23, 2024
Amazon urged a California appellate panel on Tuesday to compel arbitration for individual claims from two sellers accusing the online retailer of misclassifying them as independent contractors, and to direct the trial court to toss their representative claims under the state's Private Attorneys General Act.
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July 23, 2024
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., led a group of Democratic senators Tuesday in introducing a bill to codify the now-defunct doctrine of Chevron deference after it was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court last month.
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July 23, 2024
The Third Circuit's ruling that NCAA athletes may plausibly plead they are employees who are owed wages for the time they spend on sports underscores how its long-standing multifactor test for entitlement to pay remains the starting point for a variety of scenarios, attorneys told Law360.
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July 23, 2024
Ryan Stewart of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP helped car rental giant Enterprise dodge $160 million in claims that it illegally collected biometric data from workers when it used their fingerprints to register their arrival at work, on top of other victories he secured for Amazon and sales company Credico, earning him a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 23, 2024
Though regular performance reviews are standard in many jobs, experts warn that bias can easily creep into evaluations and lead to illegal gender- and race-based pay gaps in a time of increased legislative and public focus on pay inequity. Here, experts from both sides of the bar discuss four strategies to ensure performance reviews aren't unfairly hitting protected workers' pocketbooks.
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July 22, 2024
Federal financial services provider State Street agreed to set aside $4.2 million to make wage adjustments in the future as part of a settlement to resolve allegations that it discriminated against some women managing directors with its base pay and bonuses, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Monday.
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July 22, 2024
While Vice President Kamala Harris' work on employment policy has been less publicized than her other endeavors, experts said the potential Democratic presidential nominee's tenure in Congress makes clear that enhancing workplace protections is a priority for her.
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July 22, 2024
A Missouri Nissan dealership is still on the hook in a former office manager's lawsuit alleging she was misclassified as overtime exempt, with a federal judge ruling Monday it was still unclear whether the ex-employee's work involved independent decision making that could render her ineligible for overtime premiums.
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July 22, 2024
More than a dozen bankrupt nursing homes will have to pay nearly $36 million in a U.S. Department of Labor's suit claiming workers weren't paid full wages after creating "an adversarial" payroll structure, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Monday.
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July 22, 2024
A car parts manufacturer, two recruiting agencies and a group of Mexican engineers who alleged the companies lured them to the U.S. with false promises of high-paying jobs before forcing them to work manual labor for long hours and low wages have reached a tentative $1.2 million settlement.
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July 22, 2024
A post-acute healthcare network will shell out about $1 million to end a suit that claimed it cheated direct support personnel workers out of overtime after misclassifying them as independent contractors, after a New Mexico federal judge approved the deal Monday.
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July 22, 2024
The Ninth Circuit declined to reinstate a lawsuit alleging the Transportation Security Administration fired an officer for complaining that he faced a hostile work environment, saying he failed to overcome the agency's assertion that he was terminated for refusing to comply with an investigation into alleged criminal activity.
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July 22, 2024
The operators of 10 pizza restaurant franchises in Nevada owe more than $277,000 for allowing minors to work at times the law does not permit and operate dangerous machinery, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Monday.
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July 22, 2024
Delivery drivers accusing Amazon of misclassifying them as independent contractors urged a Washington federal judge not to grant the e-commerce giant's bid to toss the eight-year-old suit, saying their claims are solid enough for this stage of the litigation to continue.
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July 22, 2024
Three Mexican restaurant locations in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont will pay $137,000 in back wages, damages and fines for denying 126 workers their full tips and wages, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Monday.
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July 22, 2024
Canada Dry has agreed to shell out $1 million to put to rest a Fair Labor Standards Act suit in Pennsylvania federal court claiming it miscalculated workers' overtime pay.
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July 22, 2024
Tanvir Rahman of Filippatos PLLC secured a $12 million settlement for a former Fox News producer who said she was used as a scapegoat during the network's legal battle with Dominion Voting Systems, earning him a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 22, 2024
A Georgia children's therapy provider has not been paying its registered behavior technicians for the time spent working before appointments, traveling, performing administrative work and attending required training sessions, four ex-workers claimed in a proposed collective action in federal court.
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July 22, 2024
A suit challenging the U.S. Department of Labor's authority to regulate salary thresholds for overtime exemptions serves as an important test case for how courts will assess the contours of agency rulemaking power because of the salary requirements' particular history, attorneys say.
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July 19, 2024
A slew of business groups urged a Texas federal court to halt on a nationwide basis the U.S. Department of Labor's rule raising salary thresholds for a federal overtime exemption, arguing they raise identical arguments the court already sided with.
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July 19, 2024
Federal Trade Commission staffers want to block Kroger and Albertsons from using their main defense to an in-house merger challenge — the plan to sell off 579 stores — or otherwise force the companies to produce documents so far protected as privileged, according to a recently public filing.
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July 19, 2024
The Ninth Circuit on Friday affirmed that an airplane fuel pumper can proceed with his unpaid wage claims in federal court rather than in arbitration, ruling his work is involved in the flow of interstate commerce and he is thus a transportation worker exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act.
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July 19, 2024
Even with a deal of such size and consequence — approximately $2.8 billion, more than 184,000 athletes in the class, all the Power Five conferences named and with decades of court rulings leading up to it — the settlement over name, image and likeness compensation in the Grant House-led class action against the NCAA is best seen as a beginning, rather than an end.
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July 19, 2024
The State of New Jersey called a federal court's attention to a recent Third Circuit decision holding that the bar for issuing preliminary injunctions should be higher, saying the ruling supports its argument opposing a business community request to block a state law regulating protections for temporary workers.
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July 19, 2024
A Wisconsin federal court granted preliminary approval to a $15 million deal resolving claims that Kraft Heinz Foods Co. failed to pay employees for all hours worked and include certain compensation when calculating overtime, finding the deal fair and reasonable.