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March 26, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board properly found that a gas supplier violated federal labor law by withholding a raise from a group of unionizing Southern California employees in 2018, board prosecutors told the Ninth Circuit, asking the appellate court to enforce the ruling.
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March 26, 2025
A Colorado rehabilitation center can't escape a nurse's civil theft claim in her suit alleging the center required her to work through meal breaks without proper pay, a federal judge ruled, saying a longer statute of limitation applies.
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March 26, 2025
Healthcare company Kaiser Permanente miscalculated workers' overtime by leaving out rates for extra days of work and holidays, according to a proposed class action filed in Colorado state court.
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March 26, 2025
Crunch Fitness failed to pay California-based employees for all their hours worked, improperly calculated their overtime pay and lacked a procedure in place by which workers could accrue paid sick time, a Private Attorneys General Act lawsuit said.
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March 26, 2025
Republican members of a U.S. House committee urged the head of the U.S. Department of Labor on Wednesday to drop a Biden administration proposal to phase out the ability of employers to pay workers with disabilities below the federal minimum wage.
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March 25, 2025
An Ohio federal judge on Tuesday approved a $1.15 million settlement ending a collective action that accused snack manufacturer Shearer's Foods of having employees work overtime without pay, including doing necessary preshift sanitation and preparation work.
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March 25, 2025
A group of Division I volunteer baseball coaches has asked a California federal court to sign off on a proposed settlement under which the NCAA would pay $49.25 million to roughly 1,000 coaches to resolve their proposed antitrust class action challenging a since-repealed "uniform wage fix" bylaw.
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March 25, 2025
Eric Leonard, a government contracts and employment lawyer, said he foresees an uptick in unpaid wages litigation and that federal contractors need to assert their rights amid the current uncertainty. Here, Law360 speaks with Leonard about what this turmoil means for contractors and their wage obligations.
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March 25, 2025
An Ohio federal judge greenlighted a deal in which a healthcare staffing company that recruits nurses from the Philippines will shell out $6 million to settle a suit with about 5,600 workers accusing it of imposing strict employment contracts, not paying overtime and mandating a gossip ban.
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March 25, 2025
Hershey defeated a former production operator's lawsuit claiming he was fired for taking time off to assist his wife with fertility treatments, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled, saying there was nothing wrong with an internal investigation that found he was misusing the leave he'd been given.
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March 25, 2025
Republicans on a U.S. House subcommittee called on Tuesday for updating the Fair Labor Standards Act to more easily classify workers as independent contractors and enable overtime and paid time off swapping, while Democrats urged greater protections for employees, not a watering down of the law.
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March 25, 2025
More than two dozen filings in a proposed class action alleging X unlawfully shorted laid-off workers on severance should be unveiled, several media companies told a Delaware federal court Tuesday in a bid to intervene in the case, arguing the public has a right to view those filings.
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March 25, 2025
A group of student-athletes still failed to show that their colleges, universities and the NCAA had the joint control typical of employers even after their cases took a trip to the Third Circuit, the association told a Pennsylvania federal court, launching a renewed bid to toss the students' suit.
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March 25, 2025
Staffing firm employees can't proceed as a class in their lawsuit accusing their employer of failing to pay them a minimum wage, a North Carolina federal judge ruled, because they can't show that all the workers were subject to the same common policies.
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March 25, 2025
The Fifth Circuit's ruling in favor of the Biden administration's mandate increasing the minimum wage for federal contractors to $15 per hour must be nixed because President Donald Trump overturned the rule in an executive order, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
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March 24, 2025
Restaurant chain Steak 'n Shake will shell out $372,000 to nearly 150 servers who claimed that they were not paid full minimum wages when they spent more than 20% of their time performing nontipped work, as an Ohio federal judge approved the deal Monday.
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March 24, 2025
The Trump administration has selected a former Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP attorney to lead the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, with the lawyer promising Monday to uphold the president's mandate of stripping the agency's legal authority to investigate bias complaints against federal contractors.
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March 24, 2025
A corrections officer at New York's Rikers Island told a federal court that he worked up to 88 hours per workweek and was forced to remain on premises — without getting properly paid for overtime — while missing inmates were located.
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March 24, 2025
A 76-year-old worker said he was forced to retire because a global logistics provider discriminated against him because of his age and disabilities and misclassified him as a manager to avoid paying him overtime, a lawsuit filed in North Carolina federal court said.
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March 24, 2025
The U.S. Department of Labor said it is no longer enforcing the Biden-era minimum wage for federal contractors after President Donald Trump axed the raise, asking the Ninth Circuit to vacate a panel's decision against the wage bump.
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March 24, 2025
Xerox failed to pay call center workers in compliance with Washington state's minimum wage law, a federal judge ruled while saying it's unclear just how much the company owes a class of about 4,800 current and former employees.
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March 24, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to review a case about whether San Francisco nurses were misclassified and are entitled to overtime pay because they were not paid a true salary under the Fair Labor Standards Act — an issue that recalls the high court's ruling in Helix Energy Solutions Group Inc. v. Hewitt.
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March 21, 2025
A Texas-based oilfield support services company and a former employee have reached a settlement in the ex-employee's wage lawsuit accusing the company of misclassifying workers as independent contractors to avoid paying overtime, the parties told a Texas federal court.
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March 21, 2025
The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit will consider a suit from a former nurse of the government-run Indian Health Service claiming she's owed a higher rate of overtime, weekend and holiday pay, asking both the worker and the government to address how the U.S. Supreme Court's Loper Bright decision affects the case.
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March 21, 2025
A Colorado healthcare system failed to account for the extra pay employees earn when working on holidays when calculating their overtime rates, a proposed class action removed to federal court said.