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August 19, 2024
After years of million-dollar settlements with their waiters and front-of-house staff, most of New York’s large restaurants have equipped themselves with attorneys and compliance pros to head off potential lawsuits, while mom-and-pop eateries often struggle to keep up with evolving wage and tipping rules.
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August 19, 2024
Energy company DTE Energy told a Michigan federal court that customer service employees who sued it for unpaid off-the-clock work received more than double the minimum wage and that federal labor law preempts their breach of contract claims, arguing their suit can't stand.
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August 19, 2024
A California federal judge refused to sign off on a $3.5 million deal that would have resolved bus drivers' wage and hour suit against a student transportation company, saying the workers' attorneys are inadequate to properly represent the class the drivers seek to certify.
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August 19, 2024
A waste company accused of misclassifying two workers to deny them their full wages will pay $670,000 to end the suit, according to court papers filed in Maryland federal court.
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August 16, 2024
HP has joined the list of major companies to be hit with proposed class claims for allegedly failing to include pay ranges in job postings, in violation of Washington state wage disclosure laws, according to a lawsuit moved to Seattle federal court on Thursday.
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August 16, 2024
Servers claiming a restaurant chain violated tip credit regulations can snag a partial win in their suit, an Ohio federal judge ruled, saying they performed enough untipped work, but they didn't spend enough time performing tip-supporting tasks.
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August 16, 2024
A now-retired federal judge stayed an Amazon Flex driver's misclassification suit when the claims were shipped to arbitration, a New Jersey district court ruled, resolving a dispute about the status of the case on remand from the Third Circuit.
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August 16, 2024
Collective suits are similar to mass actions consolidating individual cases, a split Seventh Circuit panel found Friday, ruling in a Fair Labor Standards Act overtime suit from H-2A temporary agricultural workers that a court needs to establish jurisdiction over each member of the collective.
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August 16, 2024
A California federal judge granted preliminary approval of a $16.65 million deal that resolves pilots' lawsuit accusing Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. of failing to properly pay them for overtime hours and reserve duty and compensate them for meal and rest periods.
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August 16, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for potential final approval of a $3.125 million settlement in a wage and hour class action against Liberty Mutual. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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August 16, 2024
An Ohio healthcare company and a nurse alleging it unlawfully deducted wages for meal breaks she was unable to take agreed to mediate her proposed collective overtime claims, according to court documents.
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August 16, 2024
Employment firm Jackson Lewis PC has expanded its roster this week with the additions of two attorneys with combined experience of more than 30 years to its offices in the Western Pennsylvania and Kansas City areas.
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August 16, 2024
A Pittsburgh photography studio cheated a former associate photographer of her wages after misclassifying her as an independent contractor, withheld her tipped wages and posted boudoir photos of her on social media without her consent, the photographer said in a suit in Pennsylvania state court.
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August 16, 2024
An attorney representing a grocery store in a former employee's unpaid-wages lawsuit is on the hook for more than $192,000 for deliberately prolonging the case for years, and must pay the court $10,000 for needlessly wasting its resources, a New York federal judge said.
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August 16, 2024
Proposals by former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris to eliminate federal taxes on tips for workers in at least some industries could intensify disputes regarding what counts as a tip and dampen the push to eliminate a tipped subminimum wage, attorneys said. Here, Law360 explores issues that could arise.
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August 16, 2024
A New York City hotel and hospitality workers' union are scheduled to appear before a New York federal judge for the first time as part of the hotel's lawsuit seeking to end ongoing agreements the union struck with a previous owner.
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August 16, 2024
While Connecticut workers may rejoice over a major expansion of paid sick leave that will begin to roll out next year, businesses will need to spend some time and effort getting ready to implement the new law, attorneys told Law360.
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August 15, 2024
A hospital system a California county created is a public entity that is not required to follow the California Labor Code's meal and rest break requirements, the state's high court ruled Thursday, nixing an appellate panel's ruling against the entity.
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August 15, 2024
The Fourth Circuit declined Thursday to reinstate a lawsuit two Nepalese-English interpreters brought against a government contractor accusing it of failing to pay them overtime wages, saying the Maryland laws they sued under don't apply to their case because they worked in Afghanistan.
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August 15, 2024
Detention center employees urged a North Carolina federal court to reject a sheriff's office's bid to toss their wage and hour class action, saying its argument that it pays workers in line with federal regulations for employees whose hours change weekly doesn't apply to them.
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August 15, 2024
A Georgia federal judge shot down a deal to end a former Sysco employee's proposed collective action claiming the company failed to pay warehouse workers' overtime, saying the settlement must reflect the "active participation" of the other workers involved in the suit.
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August 15, 2024
Two legal services organizations told the U.S. Supreme Court that holding employers to a higher standard to prove their employees are overtime-exempt would break a legislative balance and clash with federal law, backing an international food distributor's challenge to a Fourth Circuit ruling.
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August 15, 2024
A Virginia-based home healthcare company will pay nearly $1.5 million to end a U.S. Department of Labor suit alleging it denied workers their overtime wages, according to court papers.
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August 15, 2024
Assistant branch managers hold executive duties and are therefore exempt from earning overtime, Enterprise told a Massachusetts federal court in its bid to dodge a former worker's lawsuit alleging the car-rental company wrongly misclassified him as overtime-exempt, which resulted in him missing out on extra pay.
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August 15, 2024
An international food distributor told the U.S. Supreme Court that subjecting employers to a higher standard in order to claim that certain workers are overtime-exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act would have serious ramifications in employment law, urging the justices to follow Congress' directions.