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July 23, 2024
The administrative law judge overseeing the Federal Trade Commission's in-house challenge to Kroger and Albertsons' $25 billion merger has given the agency and the grocery behemoths two extra days on a couple of filing deadlines after the FTC said the worldwide Microsoft outage left several counsel laptops unusable.
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July 23, 2024
The federal minimum wage hasn’t budged in 15 years, despite efforts from both Democrats and Republicans to raise it, and as statewide and local wage floors have far exceeded the national rate. Here, Law360 explores the federal floor.
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July 23, 2024
A New Mexico healthcare provider can't dodge a worker's proposed collective action claiming it implemented automatic meal break deductions and didn't incorporate all compensation into overtime wages, with a federal judge ruling Tuesday that it was the worker's joint employer.
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July 23, 2024
A North Carolina federal court has permitted a chicken processing company to question two workers as part of a wage suit against the wishes of a putative class of employees, saying the interrogation request didn't come too late.
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July 23, 2024
A worker claiming Ernst & Young LLP misclassified him as an independent contractor can't nix an arbitrator award in favor of the accounting firm tossing his allegations, a California federal judge ruled, saying that the arbitrator applied the correct laws and their statute of limitations.
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July 23, 2024
A California federal judge sent into arbitration a Spanish-speaking cleaner's lawsuit accusing an airport services company of unlawfully terminating her, saying the court must enforce her English-only arbitration agreement because she had a bilingual person helping her with her paperwork.
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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.