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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.
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July 10, 2024
X Corp. and Elon Musk can escape claims they owe former employees $500 million in severance following the business mogul's purchase of the social platform formerly known as Twitter, a California federal judge ruled, saying the facts don't show that federal benefits law governed the payments workers received.
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July 10, 2024
A restaurant in Virginia paid more than $172,000 in back wages and damages for denying 21 workers overtime rates, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Wednesday.
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July 10, 2024
Republican governors and state legislators are pushing back against the U.S. Department of Labor's attempts to rein in unlawful child labor, a federal effort those at the state level argue is hurting employers.
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July 10, 2024
A home care company in New Orleans paid $110,000 in back wages and damages for denying workers overtime rates, the U.S. Department of Labor announced.
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July 09, 2024
A Seventh Circuit panel turned down pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly & Co.'s challenge to an Indiana federal court's decision to grant collective certification in an age discrimination suit, but said it would be open to looking at the two-step certification process in place to greenlight collectives.
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July 09, 2024
A Mexican restaurant in Pennsylvania will pay more than $1.3 million in back wages, damages and fines to end a U.S. Department of Labor suit alleging it kept portions of workers' tips and denied proper overtime rates, according to federal court papers filed Tuesday.
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July 09, 2024
A Texas federal judge certified a collective of card dealers for a Dallas poker club who alleged they were paid below minimum wage because they were forced to share their tips with managers, finding Tuesday that their responsibilities were similar enough to support proceeding as a group.
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July 09, 2024
A Colorado federal judge urged Amazon and workers suing the company over unpaid COVID-19 screenings to file briefs on whether he should recuse himself from the case, disclosing that his son works for what he believes is an Amazon affiliate.
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July 09, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor has argued that it has had the authority to regulate wages for foreign H-2A farmworkers for about 40 years, telling a Georgia federal court that 17 Republican attorneys general and two entities cannot halt a rule that just went into effect.
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July 09, 2024
Former employees accusing eight New York City vegan restaurants of wage violations asked a federal judge for a quick appeal of an order denying a proposed $1.3 million settlement, arguing the Second Circuit's take will bring the litigation to a much faster conclusion.
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July 09, 2024
A brewery in New Hampshire paid nearly $918,000 for stiffing 44 workers on their full tips and wages, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Tuesday.
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July 09, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor's efforts to combat child exploitation include the use of the Fair Labor Standards Act's provision on "hot" goods, an important tool that ups the ante for accountability across the supply chain, experts say.
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July 08, 2024
Polsinelli LLP has added a pair of experienced labor and employment attorneys to its Los Angeles and San Francisco offices, bolstering the firm's wage-and-hour and general employment practice in the Golden State, according to an announcement made Monday.
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July 08, 2024
United Parcel Service Inc. scored a pretrial win Monday in a lawsuit claiming it passed over women for promotions and gave men better pay and working conditions after a California federal judge ruled that the three plaintiffs hadn't done enough to show the shipping company discriminated against them.
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July 08, 2024
While the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's first attempt to collect salary details from employers faced strong headwinds, experts said the proliferation of state-level pay transparency mandates may make a fresh wage data collection effort an easier lift for businesses.
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July 08, 2024
A Massachusetts appeals panel kept a trial court's decision tossing two school nurses' suit claiming unpaid meal breaks, saying the duo was paid for the breaks they spent while remaining on school grounds.
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July 08, 2024
A worker asked the Ninth Circuit on Monday to uphold a lower court's determination that her wage claims against a medical product seller are exempt from federal arbitration law, saying a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling clarifying who qualifies for the exemption supports keeping her claims in court.
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July 08, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor pressed a Texas federal court to toss a suit challenging its independent contractor rule, saying that the rule doesn't hurt the trade groups seeking to invalidate it and that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent Chevron decision doesn't move the needle.
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July 08, 2024
Recently enacted reforms to California's Private Attorneys General Act will likely curb the recent surge in multimillion-dollar PAGA settlements and help employers "stop the bleeding," legal experts told Law360, but the amendments are also likely to spur further litigation over newly created ambiguities in the novel Golden State statute.
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July 08, 2024
The State of New Jersey urged a federal judge to keep in place the equal benefits provision of its law codifying protections for temporary workers, arguing it is not superseded by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act because employers can satisfy the state law without altering ERISA plans.
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July 08, 2024
Cozen O'Connor expanded its Pittsburgh office this week with the addition of an attorney with nearly two decades of experience in labor and employment law, who moved his practice after more than five years with K&L Gates LLP.