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August 13, 2024
As it prepares to merge with a Northeastern law firm at the start of next year, New York-based construction and real estate firm Goetz Fitzpatrick LLP announced the addition of a name partner from another Empire State firm Sahn Ward Braff Koblenz Coschignano PLLC.
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August 13, 2024
The Ninth Circuit correctly applied U.S. Supreme Court precedent when it ruled that moving Adidas merchandise in a warehouse counted as arbitration-exempt work, a worker told the high court, urging it to turn down a staffing agency's attempt to have it weigh in on his wage suit.
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August 13, 2024
A Chinese restaurant in Philadelphia will pay $76,500 to end a worker's suit claiming he was stiffed on overtime rates while the restaurant paid him a flat monthly wage, according to court papers.
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August 13, 2024
A California federal judge approved a $7.3 million deal resolving a lawsuit from a class of thousands of home care workers who accused Los Angeles County of wrongly denying them time-and-a-half pay for their overtime hours, putting an end to a seven-year dispute.
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August 12, 2024
The Ninth Circuit on Monday refused to revive two foreign workers' whistleblower suit against companies tapped to provide a Tesla construction project with laborers, ruling in a published opinion that the companies didn't defraud the government by seeking cheaper work visas.
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August 12, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice said the Fair Labor Standards Act doesn't infringe on First Amendment rights, rejecting an argument by Michael Bloomberg's 2020 presidential campaign organization that the law's overtime requirements muzzle political speech.
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August 12, 2024
A group of female athletes objected to a more than $2 billion proposed class settlement with the NCAA over use of their name, image and likeness, arguing the deal "vastly favors" male athletes and perpetuates an existing gender pay gap.
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August 12, 2024
Default judgment should be entered against a strip club because it has failed to properly respond to a class action accusing it of misclassifying exotic dancers as independent contractors and has destroyed key evidence to boot, a former worker told an Illinois federal court Monday.
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August 12, 2024
A Dairy Queen franchisee owner told the Fifth Circuit that the full appellate court's decision striking down the Federal Communications Commission's universal service fund highlights that the U.S. Department of Labor couldn't spike employees' salary thresholds for an overtime carveout.
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August 12, 2024
A Japanese restaurant in Manhattan will pay $160,000 to end a proposed collective action claiming it gave a portion of tips to workers who were not eligible to receive them, according to court papers filed Monday in federal court.
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August 12, 2024
A New York federal judge on Monday refused to disqualify Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP counsel from representing a former HSBC branch manager and key witness in an overtime class action against the bank, which the attorneys also defend, ruling the supposed conflict of interest is speculative and could be corrected if needed with informed consent.
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August 12, 2024
Labor and employment firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has expanded its offerings in Utah with the addition of a former leader of Polsinelli PC's employment class and collective actions practice group.
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August 12, 2024
A former employee of a New Jersey healthcare network who seeks to certify a class of employees alleging they were denied proper overtime didn't comply with deposition requests, the company told a federal court, arguing that the certification request should be denied.
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August 12, 2024
Restaurants and other businesses where workers receive tips have to pay fees so they can accept credit card payments, leading a few states to ban passing the cost onto employees. Here, Law360 offers four tips that can help employers comply with rules on fees for tips.
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August 12, 2024
Abbott Laboratories cheated workers out of overtime pay by failing to pay them for the time they spent donning and doffing sanitary equipment and washing their hands, two former employees said in a proposed class and collective action in Illinois federal court.
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August 12, 2024
A casino operator deducted lunch periods from a worker's paychecks despite him not taking those breaks and then fired him in retaliation for complaining about his missing wages and flagging possible fraud, a complaint filed in New York federal court said.
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August 09, 2024
A California appellate court has rejected Tesla's attempt to ditch a Private Attorneys General Act case brought by former employees seeking personnel records, agreeing with a lower court that the workers' status as members of a class in a related action against Tesla doesn't entitle the electric-car maker to protection under anti-SLAPP.
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August 09, 2024
Attorneys for Domino's Pizza delivery drivers alleging the company doesn't properly reimburse for mileage expenses have implored a Michigan federal judge not to sanction them, saying they weren't aware of arbitration agreements the company alleges should preclude the action until Domino's produced them.
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August 09, 2024
An insurer doesn't have to cover a $1.95 million settlement an insured car wash operator reached in an underlying lawsuit accusing the business of a litany of employment violations, the carrier told a California federal court, arguing that the business settled well above coverage limits without the insurer's authorization.
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August 09, 2024
A Mississippi fishery is urging a federal judge to dismiss the U.S. Department of Labor's suit alleging the company interfered in the agency's wage investigation, saying the acting labor secretary's refusal to testify warrants ending the case.
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August 09, 2024
A New York federal court pressed the pause button on a service and sales representative's suit claiming a cleaning product supplier paid him late, saying that the state's highest court will clear up whether workers can sue under New York's pay frequency law.
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August 09, 2024
The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision nixing the Chevron doctrine highlights that Congress gave the U.S. Department of Labor the authority to regulate Fair Labor Standards Act provisions and raise salary thresholds, the department told a Texas federal court.
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August 09, 2024
The Washington Attorney General's Office told a state court that Kroger will not agree to put off closing its planned merger with Albertsons until after a final ruling in the state's merger challenge, but the companies say they've already agreed not to finalize the deal until litigation plays out in another state.
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August 09, 2024
A hospitality company that operates hotels in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio will pay nearly $24,000 in back wages and damages to end a U.S. Department of Labor suit alleging it denied two front desk workers their full wages, the agency announced Friday.
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August 09, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for potential preliminary approval of a $16.65 million settlement in a wage and hour suit by pilots. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.