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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.
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July 19, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for the potential final approval of a $5 million deal to end a class action against a nurse staffing agency. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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July 19, 2024
Douglas J. Klein of Jackson Lewis PC has defended employers against class and collective actions, including federal court cases involving a "naked" class waiver at Insomnia Cookies and wage-and-hour claims against New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority, earning him a spot among employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 19, 2024
A Florida property management group paid nearly $304,000 in back wages, damages and fines for denying 92 workers overtime pay, the U.S. Department of Labor announced.
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July 19, 2024
Production workers for a coffee chain haven't been getting paid for the time it takes them to put on and take off protective equipment, cheating them out of overtime wages, a brewer claimed in a proposed collective and class action filed in Pennsylvania federal court.
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July 19, 2024
A status conference is scheduled this week in the National Labor Relations Board's recently revived suit seeking an injunction barring Starbucks from violating federal labor law at stores across the country.
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July 19, 2024
The first half of 2024 brought rapid-fire developments in arbitration law thanks to wage and hour cases on misclassification and unpaid wages, underscoring how the contours of the Federal Arbitration Act's Section 1 exemption will continue to be sliced and diced through employment litigation.
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July 18, 2024
A former miner urged the Fourth Circuit to approve approximately $21,000 in attorney fees in his case seeking benefits for his black lung disease, saying he has been unable to reach a settlement with an engineering company that challenged the appointment of two U.S. Department of Labor administrative law judges.
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July 18, 2024
A former engineer for BAE Systems adequately alleged that it understood he was raising concerns about his overtime pay when it chose to fire him, a Maryland federal magistrate judge ruled, keeping alive the ex-worker's retaliation claim while cutting his wage claims against the U.S. Navy contractor.
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July 18, 2024
A three-prong test for determining independent contractor status in Massachusetts continues to be central to litigation two decades after its current form took effect, and attorneys expect it will remain so as the gig economy expands.
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July 18, 2024
Attorneys representing workers for Famous Dave's can't get additional fees from funds left over from a settlement resolving claims that the restaurant chain violated tip regulations, a Maryland federal judge ruled Thursday, saying the workers' counsel have already received enough money.
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July 18, 2024
FordHarrison LLP named the leader of its wage and hour practice to take over as managing partner in the firm's Los Angeles office, turning to an attorney who started at the firm over a decade ago as an associate.
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July 18, 2024
Democratic members of the House Education and Workforce Committee called on the U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday to investigate potential risks of child labor violations in agency-approved youth work programs after recent infractions.
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July 18, 2024
A group of former au pairs who say they were underpaid for their work has urged the First Circuit to affirm that Cultural Care can't force them into arbitration in Switzerland, calling the agency's position a delay tactic with no merit.
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July 18, 2024
A TGI Friday's franchise in Ohio agreed to pay $65,000 to end a worker's suit alleging it paid subminimum wages, according to court papers.
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July 18, 2024
Nurses claiming an urgent care chain owes them wages can move forward as a collective in their suit, an Illinois federal judge ruled, saying the worker who lodged the suit showed she was similarly situated as her colleagues.
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July 18, 2024
Warner Bros. has not been paying background actors all their wages owed by failing to incorporate incentive payments into overtime calculations and requiring them to work through breaks unpaid, according to a Private Attorneys General Act suit filed in California state court.
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July 18, 2024
A group of unionized janitors who used to work in the New York City offices of social media company X have settled a suit alleging the company failed to comply with a city law requiring it to keep the janitors on for 90 days after terminating their contract.
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July 17, 2024
A wage and hour class action against Geico belongs in federal court, a California federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying the insurance company estimated the first claim alone is valued at over $5 million, but also cut all but two of the allegations from the lawsuit, citing vague, murky evidence.
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July 17, 2024
An aviation company did not waive its rights to raise the arbitration flag in a suit claiming it failed to pay workers for missed rest and meal breaks because it pointed to their agreements several times, a California federal judge ruled.