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February 07, 2025
A California federal judge refused to sign off on a class of nearly 1,300 Chili's employees who accused the chain's parent company of failing to provide them with 30-minute meal breaks, saying the workers' experiences are too varied to satisfy class treatment.
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February 06, 2025
The Trump administration's illegal decision to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development has caused a global humanitarian crisis, cost thousands of Americans their jobs and threatens U.S. national security, groups representing federal employees and foreign service workers alleged in a federal lawsuit Thursday in Washington, D.C.
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February 06, 2025
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act preempts a former Leerink Partners employee's claims that she was cheated out of about $5.5 million in deferred compensation after the bank hired her under allegedly false pretenses from Goldman Sachs, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled Thursday.
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February 06, 2025
Libertarian law firms that challenged U.S. Department of Labor wage and hour rules under former President Joe Biden expect to continue such fights while President Donald Trump is in office. Here, Law360 explores what to expect from such firms in wage litigation.
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February 06, 2025
A Nevada federal judge granted final approval Thursday to a $375 million settlement in a more than a decade-long class action in which fighters accused UFC of suppressing their wages, according to a lead attorney on the case.
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February 06, 2025
A Papa John's franchise owner failed to properly pay workers minimum wage and overtime pay and did not provide workers with meal and rest periods, according to a lawsuit filed in California state court.
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February 06, 2025
A Florida federal judge on Thursday rejected an objection by former franchisee for CBD company American Shaman Franchise System LLC to a magistrate judge's decision not to recuse herself from his breach of contract case.
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February 06, 2025
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday signed off on a collective of inspectors accusing an inspection services firm of shorting them on wages, saying the employees showed in their suit that they were all subject to the same pay policy and thus sufficiently similar.
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February 06, 2025
The Fair Labor Standards Act doesn't specify when employers need to pay workers and doesn't give a right to per diem payments, Frontier Communications and a staffing contractor said while urging a Florida federal court to trim a telecom technician's suit.
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February 06, 2025
A Massachusetts federal judge on Thursday put on hold the Trump administration's "deferred resignation" program for federal employees, delaying the deadline for workers to accept the offer until Monday while the court weighs the legality of the move.
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February 06, 2025
A mortgage company reached an agreement with a collective of loan officers to resolve their suit accusing the firm of unlawfully classifying them as exempt from earning overtime wages, a filing in California federal court said.
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February 05, 2025
A Washington federal judge has granted the U.S. Department of Labor a partial win in a farmworker union's challenge to federal policies that have allegedly depressed farmworker wages, concluding that some claims challenge DOL actions that aren't final agency actions.
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February 05, 2025
The AFL-CIO, the Economic Policy Institute and four unions sued the U.S. Department of Labor and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency in D.C. federal court Wednesday, seeking a temporary restraining order to stop DOL leadership from complying with any attempt by DOGE to access DOL data.
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February 05, 2025
A former case manager sanctioned for faking evidence and the nonprofit mental health and addiction treatment center she accused of not paying full wages told a North Carolina federal court they agreed to end the case a month before the trial was set to start.
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February 05, 2025
The New Jersey Supreme Court said it will review rulings that denied a bid for unpaid wages by an immigrant living in the country without legal permission, which stemmed from an arrangement that had him performing tasks for a property management company in exchange for an apartment.
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February 05, 2025
A Maryland federal court's decision imposing a stricter standard for an employer to claim an overtime exemption is no longer valid after the U.S. Supreme Court said the heightened evidence standard isn't necessary, an international food distributor told the Fourth Circuit.
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February 05, 2025
A former franchisee for CBD company American Shaman Franchise System LLC on Wednesday objected to an order from a magistrate judge rejecting his bid to disqualify her, saying that a magistrate judge has no authority to decide on a posttrial motion.
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February 05, 2025
A Mississippi poultry processor will pay $57,000 to end a U.S. Department of Labor suit alleging it violated child labor laws, according to a motion filed Wednesday.
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February 05, 2025
A restaurant in Illinois will pay nearly $747,000 in a U.S. Department of Labor suit alleging it stiffed workers on their full wages and fudged records, according to a federal court filing.
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February 05, 2025
Boeing cheated system and data analysts out of overtime pay even though they performed overtime-eligible work, a former employee said in a proposed class and collective action in Virginia federal court.
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February 05, 2025
A former loan counselor for a collection agency can form a collective with other remote and hybrid workers to pursue her claims that the company failed to pay the workers for time spent logging on to their computers, a Pennsylvania federal judge said.
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February 05, 2025
A Maryland federal judge greenlighted a collective of servers and bartenders in their lawsuit accusing a Creole restaurant of unlawfully claiming a tip credit to pay workers lower wages but then withholding some of their tips, finding the workers to be sufficiently similar.
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February 04, 2025
Amazon is asking a Washington federal judge to oust nearly a dozen plaintiffs from a collective action accusing the e-commerce giant of misclassifying Amazon Flex delivery drivers as independent contractors, claiming the individuals failed to comply with a court-ordered discovery deadline last month.
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February 04, 2025
A recent Third Circuit opinion on the compensability of travel time between worksites serves as a good reminder for employers to review their workers’ travel practices. Here, Law360 offers three tips on how to determine whether travel time should be paid.
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February 04, 2025
The First Circuit on Tuesday questioned an au pair placement agency's assertion that it is still entitled to force wage violation claims into arbitration in Switzerland despite more than four years of U.S. litigation and one prior trip to the appellate court.