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August 05, 2024
The State of Texas argued that increasing the minimum wage for federal contractors to $15 per hour invokes the major question doctrine, telling the Fifth Circuit that a sister appellate court addressed a similar issue when it paused the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules.
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August 05, 2024
An Ohio chain of smoke shops was hit with an unfair labor lawsuit by an employee who claims she and others were forced to stay at the shops for long hours, both working and eating with the boss, but were never compensated for their time
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August 05, 2024
A Michigan-based carnival agreed to pay $72,200 to the seasonal workers who built and operated rides and staffed games and food stands to resolve the U.S. Department of Labor's claims of underpaying them.
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August 05, 2024
A group of metal workers presented enough evidence to dodge sanctions related to their now-defunct overtime suits, a split Seventh Circuit panel ruled, affirming a lower court decision to turn down a company's bid for punishment.
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August 02, 2024
A group of 14 red states joined Texas in calling for a federal court to strike down the U.S. Department of Labor's rule raising salary thresholds for a federal overtime exemption, claiming in a brief that the new rule would hit their states particularly hard.
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August 02, 2024
In this inaugural edition of Wheeling & Appealing, Law360 recaps recent appellate opinions that made waves, quizzes readers about a new word for judicial grievances, and previews August arguments in circuit courts over controversial wage rules and a seven-figure attorney fee award after a digital age intellectual property trial.
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August 02, 2024
A California Supreme Court majority opinion barring ride-hail drivers behind Private Attorneys General Act cases from intervening in a separate case asserting overlapping claims could make companies and workers willing to settle for less, some plaintiffs-side attorneys said, while employers' attorneys pushed back against such concerns.
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August 02, 2024
A California federal magistrate judge declined to grant a construction materials company a win on a truck driver's proposed wage and hour class action, saying to the extent the allegations were based on his work as a mobile sweeper driver, they were not superseded by a collective bargaining agreement.
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August 02, 2024
Two Southern California workers who conducted background checks on applicants for federal government jobs for about a year have settled their wage and hour suit with the company that employed them, according to paperwork filed in California federal court.
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August 02, 2024
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP can arbitrate its former partner's gender discrimination suit claiming she was retaliated against for raising concerns about the firm's "unethical billing practices," a California state court judge ruled Friday, staying the entire case pending arbitration.
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August 02, 2024
This week, a New York federal judge will consider a New York City preschool's motion to trim an employment discrimination lawsuit brought by a former administrator who claims she was falsely promised a promotion and faced discrimination after an accident.
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August 02, 2024
A group of more than 600 sales representatives at a Massachusetts-based plumbing and HVAC wholesaler are eligible for overtime pay, the First Circuit concluded on Thursday, affirming a lower court's finding on a Fair Labor Standards Act complaint brought by the government.
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August 02, 2024
U.S. law firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has opened an office in Munich, its second in Germany, in a move to expand its legal services in Europe.
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August 02, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor said it recovered nearly $270,000 in back wages and damages for 76 onion farm laborers after the agency found an Idaho business had put them up in substandard housing and had not paid overtime wages.
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August 02, 2024
Two Massachusetts FedEx drivers claiming the logistics giant shorted them on overtime wages accepted an offer to end the litigation in their favor months before trial for $20,000 each, plus $126,000 in attorney fees.
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August 02, 2024
A Ninth Circuit panel ignored the movement of goods when it ruled that pumping fuel represents interstate commerce, creating a circuit split and disregarding U.S. Supreme Court guidance, said two aviation companies asking the full court to step in.
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August 02, 2024
In this week's Off The Bench, a bombshell ruling wipes out a $4.7 billion antitrust verdict against the NFL, Canada takes it on the chin for Olympic drone spying, and a nine-figure settlement to address UFC wage suppression is rejected.
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August 02, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for arguments regarding dueling partial summary judgment bids in a class action alleging Charter Communications failed to pay out unused vacation time when it merged with Time Warner Cable. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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August 01, 2024
The Michigan Supreme Court raised the minimum wage and dramatically expanded the number of employers who must soon provide workers with paid sick leave in a blockbuster end-of-term ruling Wednesday that adds new compliance burdens and potential liability for employers, attorneys told Law360.
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August 01, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor has urged a Washington federal court to toss a farmworker union's challenge to policies governing the prevailing wage, saying the union's issues actually stem from how state officials interpreted federal rules governing the wage rate.
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August 01, 2024
Federal labor law doesn't preempt some claims from unionized hospital workers in Pennsylvania over incorrect overtime pay, a federal judge determined, saying interpretation of a labor contract laying out the calculation of wage rates and pension contributions isn't necessary to resolve those allegations.
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August 01, 2024
A Black attorney sued Duane Morris LLP in California federal court, alleging the firm systemically underpaid female and nonwhite attorneys while also engaging in an employee misclassification scheme that allowed it to offload firm expenses onto nonequity partners.
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August 01, 2024
Aftermarket auto parts company Parts Authority schemed to target new immigrants, mostly from Guyana, to work as cheap labor at a New York warehouse, one former Guyanese employee alleged in a potential class action filed in New York federal court.
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August 01, 2024
The compact that created the bistate Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission gave the commission the authority to require contractors to use project labor agreements in a publicly bid construction project, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
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August 01, 2024
The long-awaited U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration's proposed workplace heat safety rule, which would require paid breaks, raises questions about the agency's authority to regulate break time while nevertheless highlighting how much leeway it has to protect workers, attorneys say.