August 09, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for potential preliminary approval of a $16.65 million settlement in a wage and hour suit by pilots. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
May 15, 2024
Recruiters for tech staffing company TEKsystems have asked a California federal judge to award them a pretrial win on their claim that the company misclassified them, saying recruiters are entry-level employees, not managers, so they don't qualify for the narrow exemption to California's overtime statute.
February 13, 2024
More than 500 TEKsystems' recruiters scored class certification Tuesday in their wage case alleging that the staffing agency misclassified them as overtime-exempt administrators, after a California federal judge ruled that the misclassification question can be answered on a classwide basis via plaintiffs' evidence indicating they had the same primary job duties.
January 26, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for a potential class certification ruling in an overtime case against information technology staffing and services company TEKsystems Inc. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
November 20, 2023
A staffing firm urged a California federal court not to certify a class of recruiters who allege they were uniformly misclassified as overtime-exempt administrators, arguing that evidence indicated that at least some recruiters employed discretion in the course of their duties.
September 01, 2022
A proposed state overtime class action was not a dismissible duplicate of a preexisting Fair Labor Standards Act suit, a California federal judge found, saying the two lawsuits contained entirely separate claims.
August 26, 2022
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for oral arguments regarding standing in a case at the Ninth Circuit alleging a tipped minimum wage is discriminatory. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.