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.
August 12, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice said the Fair Labor Standards Act doesn't infringe on First Amendment rights, rejecting an argument by Michael Bloomberg's 2020 presidential campaign organization that the law's overtime requirements muzzle political speech.
January 17, 2024
Michael Bloomberg's 2020 presidential campaign asked a New York federal court to break up a collective of field organizers who say they were not paid overtime wages, arguing that the campaign was too decentralized for the workers to have enough in common to warrant collective certification.
November 15, 2023
A group of staffers for Mike Bloomberg's 2020 presidential campaign asked a New York federal judge to certify seven classes of workers who say they were denied overtime pay, arguing that both their duties and their exemption from overtime pay were uniform.
September 07, 2023
Michael Bloomberg's 2020 presidential campaign organization cannot duck claims it failed to pay campaign workers overtime, as a New York federal judge ruled the workers were covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act and had filed their claims under California state law on time.
March 25, 2022
A New York federal judge ruled Friday that staffers of Michael Bloomberg's failed presidential bid were at-will workers who can't sue over what they say were broken promises by the campaign to keep them employed through November 2020.
September 03, 2020
A New York federal judge on Thursday conditionally certified a collective action by former staffers that worked on Mike Bloomberg's failed presidential bid who accused the billionaire's campaign of failing to pay unpaid overtime and reneging on a promise to employ them through November.
July 07, 2020
A woman who worked on New York billionaire Mike Bloomberg's failed presidential bid as a field organizer hit the campaign Monday with an amended class action suit that claims Bloomberg himself reneged on a promise to employ her and others through November.
March 23, 2020
A woman who worked on New York billionaire Mike Bloomberg's terminated presidential bid as a field organizer hit the campaign Monday with a class action alleging unpaid overtime and accusing it of reneging on a promise to employ her and others through November 2020.