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August 12, 2024
Restaurants and other businesses where workers receive tips have to pay fees so they can accept credit card payments, leading a few states to ban passing the cost onto employees. Here, Law360 offers four tips that can help employers comply with rules on fees for tips.
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August 12, 2024
Abbott Laboratories cheated workers out of overtime pay by failing to pay them for the time they spent donning and doffing sanitary equipment and washing their hands, two former employees said in a proposed class and collective action in Illinois federal court.
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August 12, 2024
A casino operator deducted lunch periods from a worker's paychecks despite him not taking those breaks and then fired him in retaliation for complaining about his missing wages and flagging possible fraud, a complaint filed in New York federal court said.
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August 09, 2024
A California appellate court has rejected Tesla's attempt to ditch a Private Attorneys General Act case brought by former employees seeking personnel records, agreeing with a lower court that the workers' status as members of a class in a related action against Tesla doesn't entitle the electric-car maker to protection under anti-SLAPP.
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August 09, 2024
Attorneys for Domino's Pizza delivery drivers alleging the company doesn't properly reimburse for mileage expenses have implored a Michigan federal judge not to sanction them, saying they weren't aware of arbitration agreements the company alleges should preclude the action until Domino's produced them.
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August 09, 2024
An insurer doesn't have to cover a $1.95 million settlement an insured car wash operator reached in an underlying lawsuit accusing the business of a litany of employment violations, the carrier told a California federal court, arguing that the business settled well above coverage limits without the insurer's authorization.
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August 09, 2024
A Mississippi fishery is urging a federal judge to dismiss the U.S. Department of Labor's suit alleging the company interfered in the agency's wage investigation, saying the acting labor secretary's refusal to testify warrants ending the case.
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August 09, 2024
A New York federal court pressed the pause button on a service and sales representative's suit claiming a cleaning product supplier paid him late, saying that the state's highest court will clear up whether workers can sue under New York's pay frequency law.
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August 09, 2024
The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision nixing the Chevron doctrine highlights that Congress gave the U.S. Department of Labor the authority to regulate Fair Labor Standards Act provisions and raise salary thresholds, the department told a Texas federal court.
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August 09, 2024
The Washington Attorney General's Office told a state court that Kroger will not agree to put off closing its planned merger with Albertsons until after a final ruling in the state's merger challenge, but the companies say they've already agreed not to finalize the deal until litigation plays out in another state.
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August 09, 2024
A hospitality company that operates hotels in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio will pay nearly $24,000 in back wages and damages to end a U.S. Department of Labor suit alleging it denied two front desk workers their full wages, the agency announced Friday.
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August 09, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for potential preliminary approval of a $16.65 million settlement in a wage and hour suit by pilots. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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August 09, 2024
This week, a New York federal judge will consider a professor's request for an injunction blocking the University of Rochester from revoking her clinical privileges while she pursues a racial bias lawsuit against the school. Here, Law360 explores this and another employment case on the docket in New York.
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August 09, 2024
Labor and employment firm Fisher Phillips added a new partner from Tharpe & Howell LLP in California to bolster its bench of attorneys handling high-stakes class action matters and Private Attorneys General Act claims.
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August 09, 2024
A group of workers for a screw pile engineering company fell under the Motor Carrier Act overtime exemption because they performed loading duties often enough to be covered by the carveout, the Fifth Circuit ruled, backing a Texas federal court's dismissal of their suit.
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August 09, 2024
An Apple-affiliated repair company can't undo a jury verdict finding it liable for wage and hour violations in a multistate wage class action, a North Carolina federal judge has ruled, finding there was sufficient evidence to support the verdict.
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August 08, 2024
A background actor can take her unpaid wages class action against Amazon Studios back to state court, a California federal judge concluded, finding federal labor law doesn't preempt the claims, which involved the payment of hourly rates that didn't fall under collective bargaining agreements with SAG-AFTRA.
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August 08, 2024
A federal magistrate judge has agreed to toll the statute of limitations for potential members of a collective action in a minimum wage and overtime suit against a supply chain management company, finding there have been "extraordinary circumstances" that delayed the case.
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August 08, 2024
The Fifth Circuit on Thursday scrapped $50,000 in sanctions imposed on a Texas employment law firm for accusing United Airlines Inc. of committing medical leave retaliation even after it learned that its client may have fabricated evidence, ruling that the firm wasn't able to properly defend itself.
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August 08, 2024
The switch for Southern California strippers to an employee work arrangement, after the state’s difficult worker classification test for independent contractors took effect in 2020, had little day-to-day impact but reset the discussion on sex work, according to a new law review article by Southwestern Law School professor Roman Hoyos. Here, Law360 speaks with Hoyos about ideas for revising the worker classification test, the meager impact of employee status on dancers, and how the law is helping to bring professional respect.
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August 08, 2024
A restaurant in Michigan will pay $50,000 in back wages, damages and fines to settle a U.S. Department of Labor suit alleging it denied 11 workers their overtime rates and ran afoul of recordkeeping requirements, according to court papers filed in federal court Thursday.
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August 08, 2024
About 15,000 drivers who worked for FedEx across the U.S. through intermediary employers have filed lawsuits in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts federal courts arguing the logistics giant is responsible for their lack of overtime wages as a joint employer, launching individual claims following a failed effort to sue as a collective.
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August 08, 2024
A U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Thursday criticized the U.S. Department of Labor's stance on independent contractor misclassification, saying the agency hasn't provided enough information on its worker classification investigations.
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August 07, 2024
A Fifth Circuit panel told the government during oral arguments Wednesday that the Labor Department needed to provide more substantial reasoning as to how it determines workers' overtime eligibility, saying that just because it has set salary thresholds for nearly a century doesn't mean it gets carte blanche.
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August 07, 2024
A class of servers who claim their tips were shorted by Sugar Factory, a restaurant at the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation's Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut, are seeking a default entry against a company behind the eatery.