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September 06, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in a wage suit against Charter Communications alleging overtime pay violations. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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September 06, 2024
As Americans go to the polls in November to vote for president and other offices, workers in 28 states and Washington, D.C., will be entitled to take time off from work to make their selections.
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September 06, 2024
A Ninth Circuit panel didn't address whether a former Alaska Airlines pilot advanced enough evidence to show the airline denied him accrued vacation and sick time while on military stints, the company said, urging the panel to revisit its decision flipping the airline's earlier win.
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September 06, 2024
A legal insurance provider reached a deal with a former customer service representative to resolve her proposed class action accusing the company of failing to compensate her for the time it took to boot up her computer before the workday began, a filing in Ohio federal court said.
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September 05, 2024
A California federal judge declined Thursday to preliminarily approve a $2.78 billion deal to settle an antitrust class action targeting the NCAA's name, image and likeness compensation rules, saying counsel must "go back to the drawing board" on some of the deal's terms.
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September 05, 2024
Collective suits can reach workers whose wage claims arise out of a different state from where the matter originated, an attorney group told the Ninth Circuit, backing workers' efforts to keep their tip suit collective against Cracker Barrel in one piece.
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September 05, 2024
Hospitality groups and workers' rights campaigners have both slammed Michigan regulators' request that the state supreme court clarify its recent minimum wage ruling, the groups coming to opposite conclusions about the state's intent but agreeing that the justices should deny the request and let the ruling speak for itself.
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September 05, 2024
A Michigan federal judge tossed a worker's suit claiming he was fired from an iron casting company for taking medical leave to treat his bipolar disorder, ruling that his claims were brought to court too late.
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September 05, 2024
A group of reamers for an oil and gas company aren't entitled to overtime under federal law because they are paid an annual salary and performed exempt duties, a Fifth Circuit panel ruled, affirming a lower court's decision.
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September 05, 2024
A proposal for the next conservative presidential administration to enable workers to choose to accumulate paid time off instead of overtime pay would save employers costs, management-side attorneys say, but worker advocates see downsides.
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September 05, 2024
A Minnesota healthcare system urged a federal court to throw out an arbitrator's award in favor of a union, saying the arbitrator ran afoul of a collective bargaining agreement by penalizing the system under state law for recouping wages it overpaid to several employees.
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September 05, 2024
A Massachusetts federal judge on Wednesday signed off on a settlement between Liberty Mutual and a group of workers at a call center in Pennsylvania over allegations the insurer forced the employees to perform various tasks before and after their shifts without pay.
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September 05, 2024
Southwest Airlines failed to restore the paid sick hours to workers as part of a settlement it reached with the city of Oakland in 2020 and denied employees their right to take sick leave, the city said in a complaint in California state court.
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September 05, 2024
The top court in Massachusetts ruled Thursday that 7-Eleven franchise owners aren't employees because they don't perform services for the corporation that licensed them the franchises.
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September 05, 2024
An operator of assisted living centers in Tennessee paid nearly $32,000 in back wages and damages for denying employees overtime rates and firing one worker who questioned the company's pay practices, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Thursday.
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September 05, 2024
A California appeals court reinstated a grape farmer's proposed class action accusing farming companies of failing to provide rest periods and overtime wages, saying he put forward enough information to put the affiliated companies on notice of his claims.
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September 05, 2024
A Texas-based home healthcare company paid more than $141,000 in back wages and damages for stiffing dozens of employees on overtime pay, the U.S. Department of Labor announced.
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September 05, 2024
Several nursing homes in upstate New York paid more than $445,000 in back wages, damages and fines for denying hundreds of employees their overtime rates, the U.S. Department of Labor announced.
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September 04, 2024
A logistics company told a Fifth Circuit panel during oral arguments Wednesday that an employee who was fired for allegedly disparaging comments made over LinkedIn wasn't protected under labor law, although the panel pointed out that an employee can take protected wage complaints to outside parties.
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September 04, 2024
Amazon urged a Washington federal court to reject class certification in a delivery driver's lawsuit alleging he was misclassified as an independent contractor, saying there are too many differences among these drivers to warrant class treatment.
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September 04, 2024
Two nonprofit groups threw support behind the U.S. Department of Labor in a New Mexico trucking company's lawsuit seeking to block the agency's new rule for classifying independent contractors, saying the regulations are key for ensuring employers don't cheat low-wage workers out of the pay and benefits they're owed.
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September 04, 2024
An employer-friendly argument the U.S. Department of Justice made in an overtime cased is part of the chorus of reasons to think the U.S. Supreme Court will continue retreating from interpreting the Fair Labor Standards Act in employees' favor, attorneys told Law360.
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September 04, 2024
An Alabama federal judge signed off on a settlement agreement between a Papa John's franchise and a Black former pizza delivery driver who alleged he faced a hostile work environment and was under-reimbursed for mileage, according to court papers.
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September 04, 2024
The Tenth Circuit pushed the borders of the Procurement Act too much when it blessed President Joe Biden's decision to increase federal contractors' hourly minimum wage, two outdoor groups told the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that the law doesn't authorize wage increases.
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September 04, 2024
A Washington appeals court refused to overturn a state agency's determination that a concrete company owes workers more than $370,000 in wages for working at a disposal site, saying the work was sufficiently related to a public works project to trigger the state's prevailing wage law.