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July 25, 2024
The California Supreme Court's decision Thursday upholding Proposition 22 on constitutional grounds means the statewide ballot measure from 2020 is safe for now, though the justices left open the possibility that state lawmakers could intervene, attorneys said. Here, Law360 explores reactions to the ruling.
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July 25, 2024
A driver alleging FedEx illegally deprived him of overtime wages can't prove the shipping giant deliberately violated federal labor laws, the company told a Massachusetts federal judge Thursday in a bid to limit the amount of damages the worker can seek to recover at trial.
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July 25, 2024
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday scrapped from a proposed rule requirements for federal contractors to attest that they were following federal and state labor laws, tossing President Barack Obama's efforts an earlier version of the rule revamped.
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July 25, 2024
A startup technology firm's description of updates to its arbitration pact were "wildly inaccurate and misleading," a California appeals court found, affirming a lower court's refusal to enforce the agreement in a worker's wage, discrimination and retaliation lawsuit as the former version the worker signed was completely different.
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July 25, 2024
A South Carolina federal contractor handed over more than $1 million in back wages for paying 43 workers improper rates, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Thursday.
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July 25, 2024
Discovery in a patent attorney's suit against his former firm, Pittsburgh-based Keevican Weiss & Bauerle LLC, has produced enough evidence to support summary judgment on some of his claims, according to a new motion filed this week in Allegheny County.
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July 25, 2024
A former support technician at Foley Hoag LLP accused the firm of "egregious violations of wage and hour laws" in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in New York federal court.
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July 25, 2024
A Dallas HVAC company paid more than $1.5 million in overtime wages and damages for misclassifying 430 technicians, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Thursday.
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July 25, 2024
The Second Circuit should keep its earlier decision that two food distributors must arbitrate claims that Flower Foods and two subsidiaries misclassified them as independent contractors because the duo didn't perform transportation work, the companies said.
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July 25, 2024
Kristina Yost of Jones Day has acted as lead counsel for Bloomberg LP in several high-profile Fair Labor Standards Act suits, helped a manufacturing company defeat a suit claiming it failed to pay overtime and worked to resolve an age discrimination case against IBM, earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 25, 2024
The California Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the Proposition 22 statewide ballot measure from 2020 that exempts certain app-based drivers from the state's independent contractor classification law, a ruling that could have widespread consequences for the gig economy and driver litigation.
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July 25, 2024
Shipman & Goodwin LLP has expanded its employment litigation capabilities with the addition of an attorney from Murtha Cullina LLP.
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July 25, 2024
Labor and employment firm Littler Mendelson PC is getting some new office heads, announcing Wednesday it has named new office managing shareholders for five of its U.S. offices — San Diego, San Jose, Indianapolis, Denver and Portland, Oregon.
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July 24, 2024
College athletes suing for a cut of NCAA television revenue in Colorado federal court have stressed that they will continue to litigate even if the settlement of a massive class action over name, image and likeness rights in California receives court approval.
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July 24, 2024
A Virginia federal judge sent to arbitration a worker's claims that a healthcare staffing company automatically deducted meal breaks from employees' time sheets and required them to perform off-the-clock work, ruling that the arbitration agreement the parties signed should be honored.
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July 24, 2024
A former Grubhub driver didn't work for the food delivery company after California passed Proposition 22 and therefore he can't pursue claims under the state's Private Attorneys General Act, a California federal judge ruled.
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July 24, 2024
The Sixth Circuit on Wednesday pressed Geico about plan documents reviewed by a lower court when it tossed agents' claims they were misclassified as independent contractors, floating the possibility of sending the case back for limited discovery.
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July 24, 2024
A potential new frontier in the "arms race" of arbitration has cropped up in a misclassification case involving an employer who rolled out an arbitration program well into litigation — a move attorneys say might be so aggressive as to represent a red line for courts.
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July 24, 2024
A Long Island restaurant won't have to face a worker's lawsuit alleging it unlawfully retained a service charge instead of distributing it among servers as promised after a New York federal judge on Wednesday adopted a magistrate judge's reasoning that the service charge was not a voluntarily paid tip.
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July 24, 2024
Staffing industry groups can't halt a New Jersey law strengthening protections for temporary workers because it doesn't discriminate between out-of-state and in-state companies and is therefore constitutional, the Third Circuit ruled Wednesday, affirming a district court's ruling.
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July 24, 2024
The settlement a group of clowns and entertainers reached with the company they accused of misclassification will have to go through court approval, a New York federal judge ruled, saying the court can't make sure the deal is fair and reasonable as it stands.
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July 24, 2024
Rebecca Sivitz of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP has helped several companies successfully handle mergers and restructuring, including helping The Kroger Co. face a first-of-its-kind challenge from the Federal Trade Commission, earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 24, 2024
A California federal judge refused to toss a suit from a former manager who said a real estate company fired her because it assumed her work would suffer after she had a child, saying it was plausible that stereotypes cost her the job.
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July 24, 2024
Red Lobster has not been paying its tipped employees all their wages owed, a worker claimed in a proposed collective action in Maryland federal court, saying the seafood chain made them perform excessive non-tip-generating work that drove their take-home pay below minimum wage.
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July 23, 2024
Hensel Phelps Construction Co. has protested over terms of an Army Corps of Engineers construction contract requiring bidders to enter into a project labor agreement, mandated by regulation, saying the PLA requirement violates a competitive contracting law.