Concerns about the potential impact on jobs and tipping, and opposition even by some workers and the Democratic governor, helped kill a Massachusetts ballot measure that would have barred employers from paying tipped workers a lower minimum wage, attorneys and other observers said. Here, Law360 explores the issue.
The Federal Trade Commission's more than $2 million penalty against Lyft over claims that the ride-hailing giant misled prospective drivers about their earning potential on the platform provides lessons for employers about pay transparency compliance, including the need to manage expectations and create clear compensation plans, attorneys say.
Former President Donald Trump’s return to the White House could mean dropping appeals in rule challenges, implementing business-friendly enforcement strategies and ending taxes on tips and overtime, attorneys said. Here, Law360 explores what to expect from the new administration.
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Concerns about the potential impact on jobs and tipping, and opposition even by some workers and the Democratic governor, helped kill a Massachusetts ballot measure that would have barred employers from paying tipped workers a lower minimum wage, attorneys and other observers said. Here, Law360 explores the issue.
The Federal Trade Commission's more than $2 million penalty against Lyft over claims that the ride-hailing giant misled prospective drivers about their earning potential on the platform provides lessons for employers about pay transparency compliance, including the need to manage expectations and create clear compensation plans, attorneys say.
Former President Donald Trump’s return to the White House could mean dropping appeals in rule challenges, implementing business-friendly enforcement strategies and ending taxes on tips and overtime, attorneys said. Here, Law360 explores what to expect from the new administration.
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November 08, 2024
Two Abbott Laboratories employees accusing the company of illegally failing to pay them for sanitary gear changes shouldn't litigate their claims in Chicago but rather Ohio, where a similar lawsuit they were previously part of is pending, an Illinois federal judge said.
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November 08, 2024
DoorDash has agreed to pay $11.25 million to resolve a lawsuit accusing it of violating Illinois consumer protection law by misrepresenting to its users that drivers would keep 100% of their tips, according to a consent decree reached with the state.
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November 08, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice alleged in a race bias suit filed in Mississippi federal court Friday that the state Senate paid a Black attorney at times less than half of what her white colleagues were paid even though they completed the same work.
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November 08, 2024
A former DLA Piper associate told a New York federal court that her pregnancy bias case against the firm should be heard by a jury, arguing the firm's assertion that she was fired for careless work is contradicted by bonuses she was given and a lack of disciplinary records.
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November 08, 2024
A group of state foresters urged the North Carolina Court of Appeals to affirm a trial court order requiring they be paid overtime for work combating forest fires, saying state agencies clearly agreed to compensate them at a rate of time-and-a-half of their regular pay under a reimbursement deal with the federal government.
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November 08, 2024
Jackson Lewis PC has expanded its employment counseling and litigation capabilities in Cleveland with the addition of a longtime UB Greensfelder LLP attorney.
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November 08, 2024
This week, the Second Circuit will consider a nursing home's attempt to block a National Labor Relations Board case against it on the grounds that the agency is unconstitutionally structured. Here, Law360 looks at this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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November 08, 2024
A union-represented longshoreman who left his job to serve in the U.S. Air Force for nine years is ineligible for a promotion he might have received if he served five years or less, the Ninth Circuit affirmed, saying he didn't qualify for an exception to the years requirement.
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November 08, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for potential final approval of a nearly $16 million settlement for Delta Air Lines flight attendants alleging wage claims. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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November 07, 2024
A California federal judge gave a final nod Thursday to a $5.5 million settlement that resolves a 250,000-member proposed class action accusing Amazon of unlawfully failing to compensate them for their time spent undergoing mandatory COVID-19 screenings before their shifts.
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November 07, 2024
A pair of health care staffing companies in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania failed to pay overtime to a group of employees it classified as independent contractors, the U.S. Department of Labor alleged Thursday.
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November 07, 2024
Two live-in caregivers urged a Connecticut federal court to grant them a partial pretrial win Thursday in their lawsuit against a home healthcare company, arguing the undisputed facts show their former employer unlawfully failed to compensate them for time they spent working during designated breaks.
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November 07, 2024
Polsinelli PC has hired a new shareholder in Washington, D.C., who spent more than two decades with Reed Smith LLP, which included time as that firm's global labor and employment chair.
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November 07, 2024
Call center workers shouldn't be allowed to toll the statute of limitations in their collective suit claiming that AT&T failed to pay them overtime, the company told an Illinois federal court, arguing that nothing has precluded purported plaintiffs from chiming in.
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November 07, 2024
The Library of Congress does not have to face an almost 20-year-old lawsuit in which African American employees alleged that the institution subjected them to workplace harassment and discriminatory practices in hiring and pay, a D.C. federal judge ruled, finding that the workers' Title VII claims lacked specificity.
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November 06, 2024
A North Carolina trial court correctly held that the overtime rate under state law for North Carolina Forest Service professional employees is a straight-time rate, two state agencies told the state's appeals court, arguing that a higher rate is not warranted.
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November 06, 2024
A Washington federal judge sent back to state court a job applicant's proposed class action accusing HP of violating state law by failing to include salary ranges in job postings, saying the worker hasn't shown she has standing to pursue the dispute in federal court.
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November 06, 2024
A retired police lieutenant still failed to support his claims that he was denied a promotion because of his military service despite the court giving him a chance to fix deficiencies in his allegations, the city of Los Angeles told a California federal court.
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November 06, 2024
A former wholesale bakery will pay over $900,000 to former employees who alleged they were not paid final paychecks or for unused vacation time when the shop abruptly closed in 2018, the California Labor Commissioner's Office said.
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November 06, 2024
A former Walmart manager supported her claims for unpaid overtime in her misclassification suit, a Georgia federal judge said Wednesday, rejecting the retail company's bid to toss her lawsuit.
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November 06, 2024
One of the biggest nonprofit free public charter school networks in the U.S., based in California, cheated employees out of wages and overtime, while also employing workers under the age of 16 in hazardous jobs, a Private Attorneys General Act suit claims.
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November 06, 2024
A Domino's franchisee urged an Ohio federal court to ship to arbitration allegations from two former pizza delivery drivers who accused the company of underreimbursing them for vehicle-related expenses, saying they failed to opt out of its binding arbitration provision.
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November 06, 2024
Mark W. Robertson of O'Melveny & Myers LLP has spent the year defending Piedmont Airlines Inc. and American Airlines from proposed class actions and other litigation over overtime, sick leave and other employment issues, earning himself a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Transportation MVPs.
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November 05, 2024
Massachusetts voters on Tuesday rejected a hotly contested measure that would have fundamentally changed how servers and other tipped workers are compensated, one of a collection of ballot initiatives dealing with employment rights, education and legalized hallucinogens.
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November 05, 2024
With former President Donald Trump projected to win the 2024 presidential election and the Republicans' success in securing the U.S. Senate majority, Trump may now get the chance to appoint two more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, cementing the court's conservative tilt for decades to come.