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June 27, 2024
A former employee of a Texas-based steel fabrication and erection company supported his claims that his former employer owes him overtime, a Fifth Circuit panel ruled, affirming a lower court's decision awarding the worker more than $80,000.
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June 27, 2024
A Washington federal judge refused to certify an appeal to the Ninth Circuit concerning the lower court's decision to remand to state court a lawsuit alleging retailer Aaron's should have included pay ranges in job advertisements, saying that state court is the ideal venue to interpret state law.
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June 26, 2024
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which took effect one year ago Thursday, has brought about more pregnancy accommodations for workers without causing overwhelming compliance challenges for employers, attorneys on both sides of the bar say.
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June 26, 2024
A Colorado state jury on Wednesday found that a gas marketing company breached an employment agreement and violated the Colorado Wage Claim Act when it failed to pay a trading director a $3.3 million bonus from natural gas trades made during a historic 2021 winter storm.
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June 26, 2024
Starbucks retaliated against an Army veteran who took time off after the birth of his child by firing him during a Teams call, a lawsuit in Washington federal court claims.
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June 26, 2024
A pizza restaurant in Texas will pay nearly $30,000 to end a U.S. Department of Labor suit alleging it operated an invalid tip pool and failed to pay proper overtime rates, according to court papers filed Wednesday.
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June 26, 2024
Two locations of a Michigan healthcare system unlawfully require employees to work through their meal breaks without pay in violation of federal wage law, according to two separate proposed collective actions filed in federal court.
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June 26, 2024
If former President Donald Trump wins reelection, the U.S. Department of Labor could return to wage and hour standards from his prior administration, and there could be a push for Congress to update what counts toward overtime, according to employment attorney Jonathan Berry’s Project 2025 policy recommendations. Berry spoke with Law360 about his recommendations.
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June 26, 2024
A California federal judge placed the final stamp of approval on a $500,000 deal ending claims that a paper company didn't pay a class of over 3,000 workers minimum wages or provide meal and rest breaks owed under state law.
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June 26, 2024
A Massachusetts federal judge granted an unopposed request to certify a collective action brought by managers at 60-plus Dunkin' Donuts locations who claim they were required to work more than 40 hours a week without overtime pay.
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June 26, 2024
Whole Foods has resolved a proposed class action alleging the grocer trimmed workers' paychecks if they came back slightly late from breaks.
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June 25, 2024
A county public employee retirement system has the authority to create employment classifications and set its employees' salaries, a California appellate court ruled Monday, reviving the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association's lawsuit seeking confirmation of its authority to make key personnel decisions.
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June 25, 2024
A Colorado gas marketing company Tuesday urged a jury to find that an ex-trader ignored a credit policy when he helped make $37 million worth of natural gas trades during a historic 2021 winter storm, arguing that none of his testifying co-workers backed up his story.
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June 25, 2024
A former Fiat Chrysler Automobiles employee who scored a $148,000 arbitration award on claims that he was wrongly fired for taking approved time off can't get more damages or reinstatement to the exact position he once held, the Sixth Circuit ruled.
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June 25, 2024
The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday remanded a wage and hour lawsuit against an on-demand delivery service to an Arizona district court after the U.S. Supreme Court in May overturned the appellate court's earlier conclusion that lawsuits can be dismissed while arbitration is occurring.
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June 25, 2024
U.S. Steel workers at a steel mill outside Pittsburgh haven't been paid for the time they spend donning and doffing protective gear and walking between the locker room and workspaces, a utility technician claimed in a lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania state court.
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June 25, 2024
A Florida charter school will pay $12,500 to end a suit alleging it failed to pay a custodian for more than 40 hours a week and fired her when she complained about it, according to court papers.
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June 25, 2024
A California appellate panel said Oracle could compel two workers' 7-year-old individual Private Attorneys General Act wage claims into arbitration, holding that the arbitration agreements couldn't have been enforced until after the U.S. Supreme Court issued the Viking ruling in 2022.
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June 24, 2024
UFC fighters seeking preliminary approval for their $335 million deal to end class claims that the mixed martial arts organization suppressed their wages submitted a revised distribution plan Monday, after a Nevada federal judge said he wanted to see "life changing" money for fighters who waited through the decadelong litigation.
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June 24, 2024
A $15 million settlement that Snapchat parent Snap Inc. struck with California's civil rights watchdog to resolve sex bias allegations includes cutting-edge provisions that could foreshadow future trends in pay equity laws, experts said.
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June 24, 2024
A Texas federal judge on Monday blocked parts of a U.S. Department of Labor rule changing how prevailing wages are determined for federally funded construction projects from going into effect, saying the department had overstepped its authority under the Davis-Bacon Act.
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June 24, 2024
An employee who sold more than $32 million in personal protective equipment during three months of the COVID-19 pandemic is not entitled to $1.3 million in commissions under the New Jersey Wage Payment Law, because the sales did not fall under her normal role and are instead "supplementary incentives," a state appeals panel ruled Monday.
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June 24, 2024
A group of tax preparers have met the requirements to form a class in a suit accusing their former employer of failing to pay overtime, a New York federal magistrate judge said, rejecting the employer's argument that their request for class status came too late.
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June 24, 2024
A class of operator and maintenance workers alleging an oil refinery company failed to pay them for the time they spent waiting to be called into work should be decertified, the company told a California federal judge, saying they did not have a uniform policy.
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June 24, 2024
The NHL is looking to squash a putative antitrust class action from players in its developmental leagues alleging exploitation and abuse, telling a New York federal court that such disputes over pay and work conditions fall under the league's collective bargaining agreement and are shielded from antitrust scrutiny.