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November 01, 2024
A nonprofit supporting migrant workers' rights filed an amicus brief Friday urging a Mississippi federal court to deny the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's bid to stay a regulation allowing H-2A migrant farmworkers to organize, saying the rule falls well within the authority of the U.S. Department of Labor.
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November 01, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court will hold oral arguments Tuesday in a case about evidence standards for the Fair Labor Standards Act's overtime exemptions, and attorneys told Law360 they are curious to see whether the justices' line of questioning addresses the statute's text and the court's own precedent.
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November 01, 2024
Two construction groups told a Texas federal court Friday that the U.S. Department of Labor's final rule updating the Davis-Bacon Act unlawfully reinstates a defunct standard and expands the statute coverage, seeking a win in their suit challenging the rule.
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November 01, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court will return to the bench Monday for its November arguments session, which will start off with a debate over whether the Federal Communications Commission telecom subsidy program involves federal funds subject to the False Claims Act, and on Tuesday how Medicare funding should be calculated for hospitals that serve large numbers of low-income patients.
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November 01, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in a case involving UNITE HERE, the San Diego County Building and Construction Trades Council, and hotel development companies. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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November 01, 2024
A South Carolina hospital reached a $15,000 deal with a former employee alleging she was forced to work through unpaid meal breaks and then fired shortly after filing a lawsuit, according to a joint settlement motion filed in federal court.
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November 01, 2024
A coal mining company failed to compensate miners for donning and doffing their protective gear while also leaving out bonuses and shift differentials from overtime pay, a former employee said in a proposed collective action in West Virginia federal court.
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November 01, 2024
This week, the Second Circuit will consider a former bank worker's attempt to revive her claim that she was transferred to a less prestigious position after she complained that the company's CEO attended a holiday party despite having COVID-19. Here, Law360 looks at this and another case on the docket in New York.
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November 01, 2024
A Denver-based oil and gas producer reached a confidential settlement with the geologist who claimed in a proposed collective action that the company owed workers overtime after misclassifying them as independent contractors.
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November 01, 2024
Charter Communications urged a California federal court to deconstruct a 5,700-member class of workers who accused the company of failing to pay out unused vacation time when it merged with Time Warner Cable, saying too many individual issues exist to warrant a classwide trial.
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October 31, 2024
The future of the Boy Scouts of America's Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan is set to be determined by the Third Circuit this month, with the court poised to consider whether recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent on bankruptcies and settlements allows the reopening of the plan.
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October 31, 2024
Seyfarth Shaw urged a Colorado federal judge on Wednesday to reject a bid to disqualify the law firm from representing Amazon in a putative class action after representing former managers who are allegedly presumed class members, arguing there was no real harm since its attorneys quickly dropped the former employees after discovering potential conflicts.
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October 31, 2024
Masimo Corp. has sued its founder in Delaware Chancery Court, seeking a declaration that a $450 million payout triggered in part by the founder's loss of control or his ouster as CEO and chairman is unenforceable, saying the amount is "unprecedented" and shouldn't be paid by shareholders who were simply exercising their voting rights.
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October 31, 2024
A Texas federal judge temporarily blocked the U.S. Department of Labor from using its internal judge system to pursue administrative proceedings against a government contractor for allegedly discriminatory hiring practices, citing a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that placed limitations on these in-house procedures.
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October 31, 2024
CBSViacom/Paramount beat a former employee's lawsuit claiming she was fired because she requested a medical exemption to the company's COVID-19 vaccination policy, with a New York federal judge ruling she failed to fix errors previously identified by the court.
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October 31, 2024
State attorneys general have proceeded with worker classification actions in the year after New York's top prosecutor reached separate settlements with Uber and Lyft totaling $328 million, though none of those actions have resulted in the reclassification of ride-hailing drivers as employees instead of independent contractors.
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October 31, 2024
Broadband company CommScope Technologies is facing a proposed class action alleging that its system for tracking commissions is flawed to the point that it does not accurately reflect the full incentive bonuses its employees have actually earned and that the company has knowingly let the problem persist.
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October 31, 2024
A New York City restaurant and bar agreed Thursday to pay $725,000 to resolve a proposed class action accusing it of shorting service workers on wages and misapplying a tip credit to their overtime compensation, a filing in New York federal court said.
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October 31, 2024
As two former Jones Day associates who are challenging the firm's family leave policy prepare to potentially go to trial in late 2025, Jones Day has told a D.C. federal court that a memorandum stating business reasons for a personnel decision shouldn't lose its status as privileged communication just because it references legal issues.
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October 31, 2024
A Pennsylvania home healthcare company will pay more than $810,000 to end a U.S. Department of Labor suit alleging it stiffed workers on their minimum and overtime wages, according to a Thursday court filing.
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October 31, 2024
The Hard Rock Cafe didn't pay servers for all hours they worked, automatically deducting time for meal breaks they didn't take and improperly managing their tips, two former employees told a New York federal court.
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October 31, 2024
Check out the Law360 Pulse Leaderboard to see which firms made the list of leaders in all-around excellence this year.
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October 31, 2024
Competition for top talent among elite law firms shows no signs of slowing down, even amid economic uncertainty, with financially strong firms deploying aggressive strategies to attract and retain skilled professionals to solidify their market position.
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October 31, 2024
Former Allstate agents asked a California federal court to grant them class status in their suit accusing the insurance company of misclassifying them as independent contractors so it could shift expenses onto them, saying they were all subject to the same policies and contracts.
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October 31, 2024
A lumber and building materials supplier asked a Wisconsin federal judge to sign off on a $100,000 deal ending a proposed class and collective action alleging it shaved hours off its workers' time sheets to avoid paying them overtime wages.