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July 12, 2024
A U.S. Department of Labor final rule raising salary thresholds for overtime exemptions is now in effect, but attorneys are waiting on updates for the U.S. territories after the federal government abandoned such proposed changes. Here, Law360 explores the territories overtime issue.
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July 12, 2024
In this week's Off The Bench, the Third Circuit enlivens the debate over whether college athletes can be considered employees, the Fifth Circuit is skeptical of Brett Favre's defamation suit and the NFL disputes claims of racism.
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July 12, 2024
A staffing agency misclassified customer service agents as independent contractors and failed to pay them for all the hours they worked, according to a proposed class and collective action filed in Colorado federal court.
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July 12, 2024
A Colorado gas marketing company has urged a state judge to find a former trading director forfeited his right to collect a $3.3 million bonus because it was the result of risky and unauthorized trading, according to a motion asking the court to toss a jury's damages award.
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July 12, 2024
A California restaurant paid nearly $83,000 in back wages, damages and fines for denying workers their full wages, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Friday.
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July 12, 2024
A California federal judge tossed proposed class action claims that American Airlines interrupted meal breaks, skimped on overtime wages and required off-the-clock work, leaving a chance for their revival while axing permanently a former worker's individual claims because of an individual settlement agreement, according to court records.
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July 12, 2024
A New York federal judge refused to reconsider a decision tossing workers' claims that a packaging supplies manufacturer provided them with inaccurate wage statements for lack of standing, but he agreed to send the standing question to the Second Circuit.
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July 12, 2024
The first half of 2024 in Washington courts was punctuated by a fizzled startup's $72 million trial win against The Boeing Co., and Monsanto Co.'s appellate reversal of a $185 million verdict in one of a series of high-profile PCB poisoning cases. Here is a closer look at some of the biggest decisions in Washington state and federal courts in the first half of 2024.
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July 12, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for the potential initial sign-off on a nearly $4 million settlement to resolve a proposed wage and hour class and collective action against language interpretation company Language Line Services Inc. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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July 11, 2024
Kroger and Albertsons are asking an administrative law judge from the Federal Trade Commission to pause the evidentiary portion of the agency's in-house case against the supermarket giants' merger, saying the companies are facing too many overlapping cases in different venues to adequately prepare and present their case.
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July 11, 2024
The Washington Supreme Court on Thursday said a nurse's wage theft suit against a hospital can proceed even though his claims are the same as the ones lodged by his union in a tossed suit, finding it would be in the best interest of both efficiency and justice.
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July 11, 2024
Lawsuits filed by job seekers following the enactment of Washington state's unique pay transparency law are lurching forward, and experts say the suits' journeys to the plaintiff-friendly venue of state court and a $3.8 million class action settlement highlight some key takeaways from this type of litigation.
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July 11, 2024
Amateurism can't shield the NCAA from student-athletes' Fair Labor Standards Act claims, the Third Circuit ruled Thursday, laying out a test to sort out whether athletes can be considered employees under the federal statute.
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July 11, 2024
A duo of Campbell Soup drivers who deliver snacks to retailers accused the company of misclassifying them as independent contractors to cheat them out of minimum and overtime wages, according to a proposed collective action filed in North Carolina federal court.
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July 11, 2024
A former delivery driver of a Manhattan sushi restaurant should receive about $23,000 in damages in his suit claiming unpaid wages, a New York federal judge recommended, significantly lowering what the worker had asked for.
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July 11, 2024
Two Mexican restaurants in Iowa paid nearly $49,000 in back wages and damages for denying 18 workers their overtime pay, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Thursday.
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July 11, 2024
An information technology staffing agency engages in "modern-day indentured servitude" via contract provisions that tether employees to jobs, forcing them to pay up to $30,000 if they leave the company, and chill their complaints, the U.S. Department of Labor told a New York federal court.
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July 11, 2024
The Washington Supreme Court has agreed to review whether the state labor agency jumped the gun by suing a cannabis company to collect back pay for employees before the agency knew how much money the workers were owed.
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July 10, 2024
Republican leaders of major congressional committees Wednesday demanded details from dozens of agencies on policies suddenly shrouded in uncertainty after U.S. Supreme Court conservatives overturned the so-called Chevron doctrine, which for 40 years gave regulators flexibility in rulemaking and advantages in related litigation.
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July 10, 2024
A Texas federal court granted Harris County Sheriff's Department deputies' request to cut several employees from the constable's office from their proposed collective action accusing the department of shorting them on overtime pay, and rejected the county's argument that the case should largely be thrown out.
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July 10, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor didn't show how a Mississippi federal court erred in ordering the agency to turn over the identities of some migrant workers who participated in the department's investigation of a fishery, the court ruled Wednesday, standing by its earlier decision.
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July 10, 2024
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday revived, for a second time, call center agents' collective action alleging the time spent turning on and off their computers before their shifts is payable under the Fair Labor Standards Act, finding that to be a factual issue that should be resolved through a jury trial.
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July 10, 2024
A performer at Lips Restaurant Atlanta LLC, a bar that provides drag show entertainment to diners and patrons, has filed a proposed class action against the restaurant, its owners and its general manager for allegedly failing to pay proper minimum and overtime wages.
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July 10, 2024
After Colorado recently moved to the forefront of regulating artificial intelligence in the workplace, numerous other states across the ideological spectrum — including conservative bastions like Oklahoma — are considering legislation of their own. Here, Law360 looks at four bills to regulate the use of AI in the workplace that bear watching in the second half of 2024.
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July 10, 2024
The Third Circuit on Wednesday issued a rare opinion declining to enforce a union's arbitration win, saying a Teamsters unit waited too long to challenge a cemetery operator's read of their new contract's raise language.