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3rd Circ. Has Made Hybrid Wage Settlements Easier

Federal courts in the Third Circuit are more readily approving hybrid settlements a year after a panel found that the Fair Labor Standards Act's opt-in requirement does not prohibit the release of unasserted FLSA claims as part of opt-out class settlements under state wage laws, attorneys said.

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Feds Land $5M Deal In Instacart Anti-American Bias Probe

Instacart has agreed to pay $5 million to end an investigation into whether the grocery delivery platform discriminated against U.S. workers in favor of foreigners on temporary work visas, the federal government said Tuesday.

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3 Things To Know If EEOC Ditches Criminal History Guidance

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission appears poised to scrap guidance governing employers' use of workers' arrest and conviction records in employment decisions, but attorneys say that won't eliminate legal risks for companies that seek information about workers' or applicants' criminal histories. Here, attorneys discuss three things to keep in mind.

Expert Analysis

A Nuanced Reading Of DOL's Mental Health Parity Guidance

Gabrielle Fox, Jennifer Rigterink and Robert Projansky

Though a recent U.S. Department of Labor bulletin may suggest that agency enforcement pressure on group health pla... (more story)

2nd Circ. Eases Employer Defense Of Dress Code Rules

Jarad Lucan and Sarah Niemiroski

The Second Circuit recently sided with Starbucks in a ruling that makes it easier for companies to defend dress co... (more story)

Tips For Employers As Calif. Court Limits Harassment Liability

Ellen Connelly Cohen

Doe v. Wells Fargo appears to be the first published California appellate decision to determine that the harasser ... (more story)

Labor More

Wayne County, Mich., Workers Allege Overtime Shortfalls

Three former Wayne County, Michigan, employees have accused the county of engaging in "systematic and widespread underpayment" of overtime pay for hundreds of workers by excluding bonuses, shift premiums and o... (more story)

8th Circ. Panel Doubts Investors' Medtronic Insulin Pump Suit

The Eighth Circuit appeared skeptical Tuesday of investors' bid to revive allegations that medical device company Medtronic failed to properly communicate problems with an insulin pump device it manufactured a... (more story)

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Supreme Court Won't Review Bargaining Order In Cemex Case

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to consider Cemex's challenge to a Ninth Circuit decision upholding a National Labor Relations Board order requiring the builder to bargain with a Teamsters local beca... (more story)

Starbucks Seeks Full 5th Circ. Review Of NLRB Union Ruling

Starbucks has urged the full Fifth Circuit to rehear a recent panel decision finding that the coffee chain engaged in multiple federal labor law violations to suppress a union campaign in Upstate New York clai... (more story)

Home Care Aide's Wage Suit Returns To State Court

A California federal judge has sent a home care aide's lawsuit claiming she was denied meal and rest breaks back to state court, finding the claims are rooted in state law rather than her union contract.

Puerto Rico Workers Ink $3M In Deals To End Pension Fight

A federal judge approved $3 million in settlements that a group of workers reached with Puerto Rico's largest bank among other companies to resolve claims that they were stiffed on benefits after their retirem... (more story)

Amazon Union Pans Co.'s Case In 5th Circ. Election Challenge

Amazon's challenge to the National Labor Relations Board's order to bargain with workers at a Staten Island warehouse relies on "extraordinarily strained readings of the board's decision" to reject its objecti... (more story)

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Tech Co. Must Face Ex-Worker's Discrimination Claims

A former Telesoft LLC sales director can proceed with claims that she was fired because of her age, sex and disability after 21 years with the technology company, a Michigan federal judge ruled, finding that c... (more story)

Ga. Law Claim Cut From Sex Harassment Suit Against Arena

An Atlanta federal judge on Tuesday trimmed a lawsuit against State Farm Arena filed by a security guard who says a coworker touched her inappropriately during a concert while on the job, nixing a claim under ... (more story)

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Trans Worker, Pizza Chain End Bias Suit Dropped By EEOC

A Chicago pizza chain and a Black transgender former employee have agreed to resolve her claims that she was fired for reporting harassment, marking an end to a case the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commi... (more story)

UNC Settles Fed Probe Over Admissions, Antisemitism

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has agreed to shore up its antisemitism policies and refrain from using race as a factor in admission decisions in a settlement with the federal government that ... (more story)

Sanford Heisler Launches Dedicated AI Litigation Practice

Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight LLP announced Tuesday that the plaintiffs firm has launched a dedicated artificial intelligence and technology litigation practice in response to the new types of challenges indi... (more story)

Calif. Eyes Updating Pregnancy Leave, Workplace Protections

Pregnant workers in California could gain expanded protections for taking leave and receiving workplace accommodations, including remote work, under proposed regulations announced by the state's Civil Rights Council.

Adobe Gets Class Claims Tossed From Gender Bias Suit

A California federal judge cut class claims from a former Adobe worker's suit alleging the company subjected her to sexual harassment and underpaid women on a systemic basis, finding the groups she sought to r... (more story)

Wage & Hour More

Ga. Firm Aims To Keep Nearly $100K Arbitration Win Over Atty

John Foy & Associates PC has pushed back on an attempt by one of its former attorneys to have a Georgia federal judge vacate a nearly $100,000 arbitration award in the firm's favor with respect to her retaliat... (more story)

Amazon Faces Wage Suit Over Security Checks, Break Time

Amazon failed to pay Pennsylvania warehouse workers for time spent undergoing security screenings and working through meal breaks and improperly calculated their overtime wages, according to a proposed class a... (more story)

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Staffing App Will Pay $2.3M, Treat Drivers As Employees

A gig staffing company has agreed to pay $2.3 million and treat all its California workers as employees to end San Francisco's lawsuit in state court claiming it wrongly labeled delivery drivers as independent... (more story)

Olive Garden Workers Get Conditional Opt-In Nationwide Cert.

Olive Garden cannot trim a collective action that accuses it of tipped wage violations and underpaying employees, a Massachusetts federal judge has ruled, while preliminarily approving an opt-in class of the p... (more story)

Delta Accused Of Wage Abuse By Calif. Flight Attendants

Delta Air Lines Inc. cheated nonexempt flight attendants out of overtime wages by failing to compensate them for time they spent undergoing security checks, yearly staff training, preparing aircraft for boardi... (more story)

Jackson Lewis Hires Calif. DOJ Atty With Employment Chops

An attorney who has decades of experience representing employees in wage-and-hour class actions and Fair Labor Standards Act collective actions against major companies and most recently served as supervising d... (more story)

Pot Co. Ascend Says It Had Good Reasons To Fire Executive

Major cannabis company Ascend Wellness has urged a New York federal judge to find that a wrongful termination case brought by a former executive should be thrown out because the company documented a record of ... (more story)