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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.
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August 16, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for potential final approval of a $3.125 million settlement in a wage and hour class action against Liberty Mutual. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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August 16, 2024
An Ohio healthcare company and a nurse alleging it unlawfully deducted wages for meal breaks she was unable to take agreed to mediate her proposed collective overtime claims, according to court documents.
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August 16, 2024
Employment firm Jackson Lewis PC has expanded its roster this week with the additions of two attorneys with combined experience of more than 30 years to its offices in the Western Pennsylvania and Kansas City areas.
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August 16, 2024
A Pittsburgh photography studio cheated a former associate photographer of her wages after misclassifying her as an independent contractor, withheld her tipped wages and posted boudoir photos of her on social media without her consent, the photographer said in a suit in Pennsylvania state court.
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August 16, 2024
An attorney representing a grocery store in a former employee's unpaid-wages lawsuit is on the hook for more than $192,000 for deliberately prolonging the case for years, and must pay the court $10,000 for needlessly wasting its resources, a New York federal judge said.
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August 16, 2024
Proposals by former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris to eliminate federal taxes on tips for workers in at least some industries could intensify disputes regarding what counts as a tip and dampen the push to eliminate a tipped subminimum wage, attorneys said. Here, Law360 explores issues that could arise.
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August 16, 2024
A New York City hotel and hospitality workers' union are scheduled to appear before a New York federal judge for the first time as part of the hotel's lawsuit seeking to end ongoing agreements the union struck with a previous owner.
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August 16, 2024
While Connecticut workers may rejoice over a major expansion of paid sick leave that will begin to roll out next year, businesses will need to spend some time and effort getting ready to implement the new law, attorneys told Law360.