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August 20, 2024
A California state appeals court declined to reinstate a woman's bid to be awarded wages for working round-the-clock for her elderly roommate, saying $96,000 that a lower court awarded her was adequate compensation because she wasn't expected to be on standby 24 hours a day.
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August 20, 2024
The Seventh Circuit's ruling that bars out-of-state workers from joining a wage and hour collective action against a multistate employer is likely to lead to separate cases being filed in multiple states, attorneys told Law360.
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August 20, 2024
The legal industry continues to see incremental gains for female lawyers in private practice in the U.S., according to a Law360 Pulse analysis, with women now representing 40.6% of all attorneys and 51% of all associates.
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August 20, 2024
The legal industry still has a long way to go before it can achieve gender parity at its upper levels. But these law firms are performing better than others in breaking the proverbial glass ceiling that prevents women from attaining leadership roles.
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August 20, 2024
A Florida federal judge signed off on a $12,500 deal to end a suit alleging that a charter school failed to pay a custodian for more than 40 hours a week and fired her when she complained about it, about a month after initially rejecting the deal.
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August 20, 2024
A New York federal judge refused to throw out a trainer's lawsuit alleging that a luxury gym failed to properly pay her and that its owner sexually harassed her, saying her entire case falls under an amendment to the Federal Arbitration Act mandating that sexual harassment claims remain in court.
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August 19, 2024
A federal employee who was denied top-up pay while on active duty as a military reservist urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to rule that all federally employed reservists are owed differential pay if serving during a national emergency, regardless of the circumstances.
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August 19, 2024
Kroger went on the offensive Monday, a week before Oregon federal court proceedings kick off in the Federal Trade Commission's challenge to its purchase of Albertsons, in a lawsuit going after the constitutionality of the agency's in-house court, also set to contest the merger.
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August 19, 2024
The Colorado Supreme Court said Monday it will clear up whether the Colorado Wage Claim Act's shorter statute of limitations applies to claims brought under the state's Minimum Wage Act.
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August 19, 2024
Siemens Corp. violated Washington wage disclosure law by failing to list the wage scale for a field service technician role, according to a proposed class action removed to federal court in Seattle.
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August 19, 2024
A group of workers for an automotive parts company pressed a North Carolina federal court to allow their wage shortfall claims to proceed as a collective, saying their case satisfies all the requirements for certification.
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August 19, 2024
The NCAA is pushing back against critics of its more than $2 billion proposed name, image and likeness settlement with college athletes, arguing the deal is the result of "intense and carefully structured negotiations" by competent class counsel, and detractors have baseless objections.
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August 19, 2024
A residential care company in North Dakota paid nearly $74,000 in back wages for denying workers overtime rates after incorrectly claiming an exemption in the state administrative code, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Monday.
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August 19, 2024
A former Citibank employee's proposed wage and hour class action will go to arbitration after a California federal judge rejected the worker's argument that her case should stay in court because the company failed to pay an arbitration invoice on time.
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August 19, 2024
A Kentucky Islamic center correctly classified an imam as an independent contractor because it didn't exercise the control of an employer over the religious leader, but it was obligated to compensate him for work performed earlier in the coronavirus pandemic, a state appeals panel ruled.
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August 19, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission accused executives from Albertsons of deleting text messages about the supermarket chain's planned megamerger with Kroger, saying the messages likely contained valuable internal views about the effects of the $25 billion deal.
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August 19, 2024
After years of million-dollar settlements with their waiters and front-of-house staff, most of New York’s large restaurants have equipped themselves with attorneys and compliance pros to head off potential lawsuits, while mom-and-pop eateries often struggle to keep up with evolving wage and tipping rules.
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August 19, 2024
Energy company DTE Energy told a Michigan federal court that customer service employees who sued it for unpaid off-the-clock work received more than double the minimum wage and that federal labor law preempts their breach of contract claims, arguing their suit can't stand.
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August 19, 2024
A California federal judge refused to sign off on a $3.5 million deal that would have resolved bus drivers' wage and hour suit against a student transportation company, saying the workers' attorneys are inadequate to properly represent the class the drivers seek to certify.
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August 19, 2024
A waste company accused of misclassifying two workers to deny them their full wages will pay $670,000 to end the suit, according to court papers filed in Maryland federal court.
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August 16, 2024
HP has joined the list of major companies to be hit with proposed class claims for allegedly failing to include pay ranges in job postings, in violation of Washington state wage disclosure laws, according to a lawsuit moved to Seattle federal court on Thursday.
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August 16, 2024
Servers claiming a restaurant chain violated tip credit regulations can snag a partial win in their suit, an Ohio federal judge ruled, saying they performed enough untipped work, but they didn't spend enough time performing tip-supporting tasks.
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August 16, 2024
A now-retired federal judge stayed an Amazon Flex driver's misclassification suit when the claims were shipped to arbitration, a New Jersey district court ruled, resolving a dispute about the status of the case on remand from the Third Circuit.
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August 16, 2024
Collective suits are similar to mass actions consolidating individual cases, a split Seventh Circuit panel found Friday, ruling in a Fair Labor Standards Act overtime suit from H-2A temporary agricultural workers that a court needs to establish jurisdiction over each member of the collective.
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August 16, 2024
A California federal judge granted preliminary approval of a $16.65 million deal that resolves pilots' lawsuit accusing Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. of failing to properly pay them for overtime hours and reserve duty and compensate them for meal and rest periods.