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July 08, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is working on reinstalling a shelved data collection initiative aimed at tackling pay inequity by surveying employers for salary details, according to the regulatory agenda of the administration of President Joe Biden.
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July 08, 2024
U.S. cities and states led the way on legislation addressing pay protections for workers in the first half of the year, while federal wage and hour legislation stalled in a divided Congress. Here, Law360 explores the biggest wage and hour legislation of 2024 so far.
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July 05, 2024
Seminal rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court's latest term will reshape many facets of American society in the coming years. Already, however, the rulings offer glimpses of how the justices view specific circuit courts, which have themselves been reshaped by an abundance of new judges.
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July 05, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court's lethargic pace of decision-making this term left the justices to issue a slew of highly anticipated and controversial rulings during the term's final week — rulings that put the court's ideological divisions on vivid display. Here, Law360 takes a data dive into the numbers behind this court term.
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July 05, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court's dismantling of a 40-year-old judicial deference doctrine, coupled with rulings stripping federal agencies of certain enforcement powers and exposing them to additional litigation, has established the October 2023 term as likely the most consequential in administrative law history.
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July 05, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court's session ended with a series of blockbuster cases that granted the president broad immunity, changed federal gun policy and kneecapped administrative agencies. And many of the biggest decisions fell along partisan lines.
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July 05, 2024
When the high court limited the scope of a federal obstruction statute used to charge hundreds of rioters who stormed the Capitol, the justices did not vote along ideological lines. In a year marked by 6-3 splits, what accounts for the departure? Here are some moments from oral arguments that may have swayed the justices.
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July 05, 2024
In a U.S. Supreme Court term teeming with serious showdowns, the august air at oral arguments filled with laughter after an attorney mentioned her plastic surgeon and a justice seemed to diss his colleagues, to cite just two of the term's mirthful moments. Here, we look at the funniest moments of the term.
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July 05, 2024
A Louisiana federal judge stayed five business groups' challenge to a U.S. Department of Labor final rule determining which workers are independent contractors or employees under federal law while the companies appeal the court's denial of a preliminary injunction to the Fifth Circuit.
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July 05, 2024
This U.S. Supreme Court term featured high-stakes oral arguments on issues including gerrymandering, abortion and federal agency authority, and a hot bench ever more willing to engage in a lengthy back-and-forth with advocates. Here's a look at the law firms that argued the most cases and how they fared.
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July 05, 2024
A Washington federal judge partly blocked U.S. Department of Labor rules on prevailing wage rates that a union claimed depressed farmworkers' wages, saying the agency failed to consider effects on workers and must reinstate wage rates from 2020.
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July 05, 2024
A New York federal judge on Monday will consider a Long Island restaurant's bid to dismiss a worker's lawsuit claiming the restaurant violated federal and state law by retaining a service charge instead of dividing it among servers as it told customers.
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July 03, 2024
Eleventh-hour deals to keep proposed ballot measures in California and Massachusetts from going to voters show that some wage and hour issues are significant enough for companies and worker advocates to reach compromises, attorneys said. Here, Law360 explores those recent deals.
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July 03, 2024
Five workers told a New Jersey federal judge they agreed to put to rest their suit against a disaster recovery company and a waterfront building company claiming they should have been paid prevailing wages while clearing roadways and waterways in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
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July 03, 2024
A medical product seller urged the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday to reverse a lower court's determination that a worker is exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act, saying the wage claims should still be sent to arbitration under a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling clarifying which employees qualify for the exemption.
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July 03, 2024
A Washington federal judge tossed a job hopeful's suit claiming healthcare companies shirked state pay transparency laws by failing to disclose salary information in job postings, finding that the applicant didn't show he was actually harmed by the missing compensation figures.
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July 03, 2024
Microsoft agreed to shell out $14.4 million to end a California Civil Rights Department's lawsuit claiming that it discriminated against employees who take protected employment leaves, the department announced Wednesday.
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July 03, 2024
Restaurant groups suing to block a 2021 U.S. Department of Labor rule cracking down on when tipped workers can be paid subminimum wages filed a notice in the Fifth Circuit saying the court should follow the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision stating courts can independently interpret agencies' rules.
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July 03, 2024
Massachusetts state courts last month dealt with thorny contract disputes, mistakenly disclosed emails between a defendant and an attorney, and a company's overtime policy change that may not have been spelled out to workers.
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July 03, 2024
New York litigation boutique Coffey Modica LLP announced the promotion of two attorneys to partner, including the firm's first hire in 2021, as well as the elevation of another lawyer to counsel.
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July 03, 2024
Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP has hired a former deputy attorney general for the California Department of Justice, who is joining from Greenspoon Marder LLP where she led that firm's employment litigation group, the firm announced Wednesday.
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July 03, 2024
The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision pushing deadlines to challenge federal regulations doesn't entirely solve an overtime dispute between three home care companies and the U.S. Department of Labor, the government told the Third Circuit.
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July 03, 2024
This term, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Chevron deference, a precedent established 40 years ago that said when judges could defer to federal agencies' interpretations of law in rulemaking. Here, catch up with Law360's coverage of what is likely to happen next.
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July 03, 2024
Nevada has a new minimum wage structure, thanks to a voter-approved ballot question that eliminated a two-tier wage floor that depended on whether an employer offered insurance benefits.
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July 02, 2024
Massachusetts voters will decide in November whether to give app-based drivers the right to unionize after supporters of a proposed ballot initiative submitted a batch of signatures to the state Tuesday, the Service Employees International Union announced.