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June 07, 2024
A Washington federal judge sent to arbitration a proposed class action accusing Walmart of misclassifying its app-based delivery workers as independent contractors, saying the workers signed valid arbitration agreements.
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June 07, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for the potential initial sign-off on a more than $3.6 million deal to resolve a proposed wage and hour class action against freight carrier Oak Harbor Freight Lines Inc. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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June 07, 2024
Denny's has agreed to pay more than $437,000 to end a class action accusing it of failing to properly inform a group of more than 100 servers it would be taking a tip credit from their wages, according to a filing in Pennsylvania federal court.
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June 07, 2024
The Labor Management Relations Act doesn't preempt a driver's suit accusing two cold storage companies of wage and breaks violations, a California federal judge ruled, sending the case back to state court.
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June 06, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission urged an administrative law judge on Tuesday to require Kroger to fork over documents related to negotiations for its divestiture plan amid the commission's in-house challenge to the grocer's merger with Albertsons, saying Kroger's prior representations that it would produce the materials "have proven false."
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June 06, 2024
The full Fourth Circuit won't review a panel's ruling that the purpose of the job of incarcerated individuals performed at a Baltimore County recycling plant determines whether federal minimum wage laws apply, turning down on Thursday the county's bid to step in.
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June 06, 2024
The Wynn Las Vegas has agreed to pay $600,000 to end a slot attendant's suit alleging the casino shared tips with managers and diverted some to the casino itself claiming misplacement of tips, according to a motion to approve the deal filed in Nevada federal court.
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June 06, 2024
A Texas food truck operator paid more than $157,000 in back wages and damages for denying workers overtime rates, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Thursday.
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June 06, 2024
Rather than having a Pennsylvania federal judge who has presided over their equal-pay case for years recuse himself over having a son-in-law who's a shareholder at Cozen O'Connor, a class of female teachers asked the court to kick Cozen O'Connor PC off the case Thursday.
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June 06, 2024
A Connecticut-based freight logistics company only paid time-and-a-half rates when employees worked more than 45 hours per week, denying workers their full overtime pay, according to a proposed class and collective action filed Thursday in federal court.
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June 06, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision siding with the National Rifle Association on its free speech claims has nothing to do with Uber and Postmates' challenge to California's Assembly Bill 5 governing worker classification, the state attorney general told the Ninth Circuit.
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June 06, 2024
TJ Maxx has been requiring thousands of California workers to work through their rest breaks but forcing them to mark otherwise on their time sheets in violation of state labor law, a worker alleged in a proposed class action in state court.
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June 06, 2024
The maker of Tastykake snacks can't escape the bulk of a Black, Muslim ex-worker's suit claiming it unfairly docked time from him for taking prayer breaks, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled, finding the suit could stay in court even though it read as a "disjointed laundry list" of grievances.
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June 06, 2024
A New York federal judge ordered several companies that owned and operated four now-shuttered Thai restaurants in Manhattan to pay over $1.5 million to settle class action claims that they failed to pay full minimum or overtime wages.
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June 06, 2024
A mortgage lender unlawfully considered loan processor managers overtime-exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act despite them performing nonexempt duties, a former employee said in a proposed class action filed in Georgia federal court.
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June 05, 2024
A Missouri hospital network automatically deducted meal breaks from nurses' and technicians' pay even though they were unable to take the breaks, a former employee said in a proposed class and collective action filed in federal court.
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June 05, 2024
Sales representatives for Automatic Data Processing Inc. won conditional certification in their lawsuit alleging they failed to receive all their overtime wages earned, with an Arizona federal judge ruling the workers had offered up substantial evidence that they were all subjected to the same pay policies.
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June 05, 2024
A rig worker's arbitration agreement clearly extended to oil and gas exploration and production company Tug Hill Operating LLC, the company said, telling the Fourth Circuit that a West Virginia federal court gave the pact a too narrow read.
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June 05, 2024
Kaufman Dolowich has hired a pair of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP employment attorneys as partners in Los Angeles.
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June 05, 2024
A healthcare staffing company has been automatically deducting meal breaks from workers' time sheets and forcing them to work while off the clock, denying them overtime pay, according to a proposed collective action filed Wednesday in Virginia federal court.
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June 05, 2024
A Third Circuit panel tried on Wednesday to pin down when the U.S. Department of Labor and an in-home care agency believed that employees were off-duty or just traveling between jobs, and whether the company's lack of travel-time records left it open to a $7 million judgment based on government estimates.
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June 05, 2024
A former executive for a tech company told a Massachusetts federal judge Wednesday the parties agreed to dismissal of her lawsuit claiming she didn't receive promised performance bonuses and was terminated after complaining about the missing pay.
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June 05, 2024
A Detroit hospital network automatically deducts 30-minute unpaid meal breaks from nurses' and technicians' pay regardless of whether they were actually relieved from their work duties, a former employee said in a proposed class and collective action filed in Michigan federal court.
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June 05, 2024
Marriott will pay nearly $437,000 to end a proposed class action alleging unpaid wages and meal and rest break violations, with a California federal judge placing the final stamp of approval on the settlement agreement.
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June 05, 2024
Nearly all workers at healthcare facilities in California will be entitled to a higher minimum wage beginning July 1 regardless of whether they're involved in patient care. One expert called the increase a sweeping change, partly due to broad definitions of what employees and facilities are covered.