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August 29, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor has the authority to consider factors aside from job duties when determining which workers should earn overtime, the department argued as it urged a Texas federal court to end a marketing firm's suit alleging the agency overstepped by raising the salary thresholds for considering employees overtime-exempt.
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August 28, 2024
A New York federal judge shipped to arbitration a driver's lawsuit alleging that Instacart misclassified him as an independent contractor but said the Second Circuit can weigh in on whether the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption applies that allows cases from transportation workers to stay in court.
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August 28, 2024
A California federal judge has given the final sign-off to a $5 million deal ending claims that a nurse staffing firm failed to pay workers for the time they spent undergoing COVID-19 screenings and putting on and taking off personal protective equipment, according to court papers.
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August 28, 2024
As New York's Freelance Isn't Free Act takes effect, employers in the Empire State should think broadly about who is a freelance worker and prepare for stiff penalties if disputes arise, attorneys said. Here, Law360 offers tips for complying with the new law.
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August 28, 2024
Six former employees of Connecticut investment advisory firm Excel Wealth Management LLC have sued the company and its members in state court seeking hourly wages or commissions they claimed they were never paid, with some alleging they were terminated for speaking out about their compensation.
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August 28, 2024
A New York federal judge signed off on seven classes of field organizers who accused Michael Bloomberg's 2020 presidential campaign of failing to pay them overtime wages, saying the former workers adequately showed that they had largely uniform job duties.
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August 28, 2024
Kaufman Dolowich has hired a labor and employment attorney as a partner in its Los Angeles office who has been practicing with a firm he helped launch in 2009 for over 14 years, his new firm announced Wednesday.
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August 28, 2024
Two restaurants in the Dallas area paid nearly $198,000 for denying workers their full tips and wages, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Wednesday.
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August 28, 2024
A corporate office furnisher and a former employee again asked a Georgia federal court to greenlight a deal that would resolve the worker's suit alleging he was fired for complaining about unpaid overtime, saying this third settlement draft adequately reduces an attorney's fees.
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August 27, 2024
A Taco Bell franchisee, Sharp Electronics and DoorDash are among the latest employers to reach class deals in Washington state court to end job seekers' allegations they failed to include salary or wage ranges in job postings, in violation of Evergreen State pay transparency laws.
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August 27, 2024
An insurance company declined to send to arbitration a proposed collective action accusing it of failing to fully compensate sales agents for their overtime hours, saying the relevant document controlling the terms of these workers' employment doesn't include an arbitration clause.
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August 27, 2024
A California appeals court has upheld a trial court's denial of an anti-SLAPP motion in a lawsuit alleging a partner in one law firm tried to misappropriate fees won in an overtime suit by another law firm where he was also a partner.
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August 27, 2024
Rapper DaBaby's hip-hop label misclassified performers as independent contractors to avoid paying them overtime and minimum wages and dictated when they were allowed to eat and use the bathroom, according to a proposed class action filed in California state court.
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August 27, 2024
Reed Smith LLP has urged a New Jersey state court judge to reject a bid by a former attorney suing the firm for gender discrimination to obtain pay data going back nearly 20 years, arguing there is no legal basis to support expanding the scope of discovery.
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August 27, 2024
More than a dozen gas stations in New York will pay nearly $1.2 million to end a U.S. Department of Labor suit alleging they stiffed more than 100 workers on their full wages, according to court papers filed Tuesday.
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August 27, 2024
Croke Fairchild Duarte & Beres LLC, one of the country's largest women-owned law firms, has added an employment attorney from Smith Gambrell & Russell LLP as a partner.
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August 27, 2024
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has signed contentious new bills into law recently that attorneys and business owners are adjusting to, including updates to the state's Open Public Records Act that make "fee shifting" more difficult, and a new wage requirement for temporary workers.
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August 27, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor is looking for 28 former employees of a Georgia home healthcare company who are eligible for nearly $66,000 in back wages and damages as part of a settlement in an overtime suit with the employer, the agency announced Tuesday.
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August 27, 2024
Paul DeCamp, a former administrator in the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division, said the overturning of Chevron deference will lead to better rulemaking. Here, Law360 talks with DeCamp about the future of agency rules.
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August 27, 2024
The Sixth Circuit upended Geico's win in a lawsuit from insurance agents accusing it of misclassifying them as independent contractors and forcing them to lose out on benefits, saying more evidence is needed to determine if the insurer relied on unauthentic documents to get the suit tossed.
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August 27, 2024
Before Vice President Kamala Harris held her current office, she was a U.S. senator from California from 2017 to 2021. Here, Law360 details five wage and hour bills Harris supported that could preview policies her administration might champion if she wins the presidential election.
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August 27, 2024
A former Massachusetts state trooper asked to stay his five-year prison sentence for stealing overtime pay, lying on his taxes and cheating to get student aid for his son — a request prosecutors said was "yet another attempt to delay justice in this case."
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August 26, 2024
Albertsons told an Oregon federal judge Monday that if the Federal Trade Commission is able to block a proposed merger with Kroger, it could lead to layoffs and shuttered stores, because a go-it-alone Albertsons doesn't have the wholesale buying power to compete with Walmart and Costco on prices.
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August 26, 2024
Caregiver job website Care.com has agreed to shell out $8.5 million in refunds to put to rest allegations it misled caregivers about wages and job availability and also made it difficult for families to cancel paid memberships, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced Monday.
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August 26, 2024
A Washington federal judge has awarded two plaintiffs firms almost $1.2 million of a $4.4 million class and collective wage deal ending a group of Evergreen state hospital workers' claims that their employers deducted pay for meal breaks they never took.