Deputies Say Wayne County Flubbed Payroll System Switch
Wayne County, Michigan, is facing a proposed class and collective action from sheriff's deputies alleging they were denied straight-time wages, overtime and earned benefits after the implementation of a new payroll system.
Ex-President Accuses Physician AI Co. Of Fraud, Wage Theft
A data science platform and its top brass persuaded its former chief strategy officer and president to invest $750,000 in the business, only then to not pay him wages, the former employee told a North Carolina... (more story)
Elevance Fights Nurses' '11th Hour' Class Expansion
Health insurer Elevance told a North Carolina federal court that it should deny a former nurse's attempt to expand a class definition in her overtime-exempt misclassification lawsuit, arguing that the reworked... (more story)
NC Restaurants Say They Didn't 'Keep' Tips In DOL Wage Suit
Two North Carolina restaurants urged a federal court Friday to narrow a U.S. Department of Labor lawsuit alleging they unlawfully kept and pooled tips from front-of-house workers and allocated the funds to tip... (more story)
FLSA Does Not Bar Claim Waivers, Wash. Judge Says
The Fair Labor Standards Act does not categorically bar a contract's release of an employee's claims, a Washington federal judge ruled, finding that a former pharmaceutical manufacturing company worker's sever... (more story)
DOL Must Pay Retaliation Suit Atty Fees, Farm HR Head Says
The U.S. Department of Labor should pay attorney fees and expenses that a human resources manager at a Tennessee pork farm incurred to defend the agency's retaliation suit, the manager told a federal court Thu... (more story)
Red Lobster Wants Worker's Wage Suit Sent To Arbitration
A Red Lobster worker must pursue her Illinois wage claims in arbitration rather than federal court because she agreed to arbitrate employment disputes when she was rehired, the restaurant chain said Thursday.