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January 07, 2025
An attorney specializing in employment litigation matters and advising companies on compliance strategies has moved her practice to McGuireWoods' Pittsburgh office after nearly six years with Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC.
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January 07, 2025
An Amazon employee hasn't prevailed in his claims that the e-commerce giant hurdled his promotions for his U.S. Marine Corps Reserve leave, the company said, urging a Washington federal court to deny his $1.63 million in attorney fees requested as part of his settlement.
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January 07, 2025
International labor and employment law firm Fisher Phillips has brought on a Dallas-based labor and employment partner with expertise in a wide range of litigation — from class and collective actions to restrictive covenant claims — the firm announced Monday.
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January 07, 2025
A former executive at a Massachusetts company that makes drones for the agricultural industry says he was never paid during his brief tenure, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in state court.
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January 07, 2025
A Washington state appeals court declined to send to arbitration a former worker's suit accusing a Subway franchisee of failing to provide employees with meal breaks, despite a dissent finding that the worker's wage claims fall under an arbitration pact.
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January 07, 2025
An arbitration pact that the operator of a restaurant chain in California gave to a worker pushes his Private Attorneys General Act individual claims into arbitration, a state appeals panel ruled, partly flipping a trial court's decision.
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January 06, 2025
A Washington federal judge on Monday cut the state's employment agency loose from a union challenge to policies that have allegedly depressed farmworker wages, saying the U.S. Department of Labor is the only proper defendant in the litigation.
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January 06, 2025
The former CEO of the American arm of a U.K.-based food manufacturer says the company deluded him with misleading promises about stock options during the recruitment process to get him to join and then refused to pony up the shares when he left.
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January 06, 2025
A longtime hairstylist at Fox Sports is accusing the network of ignoring sexual harassment and a toxic workplace environment created by its executives and hosts, including an offer by TV host Skip Bayless of $1.5 million to have sex with her, according to a California state lawsuit.
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January 06, 2025
A Houston-area restaurant should not be allowed to claim a tip credit that permits it to pay servers less than the minimum wage because it failed to inform workers that they have to foot the bill for their uniforms, according to a proposed collective action filed in Texas federal court.
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January 06, 2025
A healthcare staffing agency agreed to pay $4.4 million to resolve a 2,300-member collective action accusing it of shorting travel nurses on overtime wages and forcing them to accept lower pay after they had already begun their contracts, a filing in Washington federal court said.
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January 06, 2025
Ohio State University, the NCAA, The Big Ten Conference Inc. and a media rights licensing company urged an Ohio federal judge to toss a proposed class action brought by former Buckeye star quarterback Terrelle Pryor alleging they engaged in an anticompetitive conspiracy to monopolize profits on athletes' names, images and likenesses.
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January 06, 2025
A former nonequity partner at Sunstein LLP says the firm waited months to pay him approximately $85,000 he was owed for work he performed for two clients he originated for the firm, according to a suit alleging violations of the Massachusetts Wage Act.
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January 03, 2025
Panera cheated some employees out of overtime wages and reimbursement for the use of their cars and cellphones working with catering clients, and also manipulated records to inaccurately log break times in violation of California labor laws, according to a representative action lodged Thursday in California state court.
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January 03, 2025
Federal Trade Commission Democrats started the new year with legacy on the brain, urging the soon-to-be Republican majority in a pair of statements to preserve their more "stringent approach" to merger review and their currently blocked ban on employment noncompete agreements, despite heavy criticism both received from their GOP peers.
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January 03, 2025
The operators of an Apple-affiliated repair company are shirking their duties to pay a nearly $840,000 judgment to workers who secured a jury trial win in their wage and hour lawsuit and have threatened to claw back any money workers receive, a filing in North Carolina federal court said.
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January 03, 2025
A budtender accusing a cannabis company of mishandling tips told a Michigan federal court that the arbitration clause in his employment agreement lacks mutuality and doesn't cover his claims, arguing that his case should stay in court.
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January 03, 2025
Staples forced employees to work through breaks and regularly required them to do tasks like helping shoppers before clocking in and without being compensated, according to a proposed wage class action removed to California federal court Thursday, echoing similar wage violation claims alleged by Staples workers filed in the last year.
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January 03, 2025
Four freelance writers told the Eleventh Circuit that the U.S. Department of Labor's final rule determining whether workers are independent contractors creates uncertainty that clearly hurts them, seeking to flip a Georgia federal court's decision tossing their challenge to the rule.
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January 03, 2025
A delivery worker's individual claims against Target's shipping partner under California's Private Attorneys General Act belong in arbitration, a state appellate panel said, disagreeing with a trial court's decision that her suit only had representative claims.
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January 03, 2025
An Illinois federal judge greenlighted a 130-member class of truck delivery drivers who accuse a logistics company of misclassifying them as independent contractors, saying the workers are sufficiently similar even if some of them hired helpers.
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January 02, 2025
A lawsuit accusing Flowers Foods of misclassifying distributors as independent contractors will be on hold while the baking company turns to the U.S. Supreme Court after the Tenth Circuit kept the case out of arbitration, a Colorado federal judge ruled Thursday.
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January 02, 2025
A Washington federal judge refused to greenlight a class in a seven-year-long suit accusing Amazon of misclassifying drivers as independent contractors, ruling that the class would unfairly group together workers who took different approaches to the flexibility of the job.
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January 02, 2025
A religious exception shielding religious entities from certain claims applies to jobs at an Orthodox Jewish organization ensuring that food is kept kosher, the Ninth Circuit ruled, upholding the dismissal of a worker's lawsuit claiming he missed out on thousands of dollars in overtime pay.
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January 02, 2025
A Black softball coach on Thursday urged an Arkansas federal court to reject the University of Arkansas' bid to toss her lawsuit alleging she was paid less than white coaches, saying the university is holding her allegations to too high a standard at this stage in the litigation.