A female sales representative for a beer and wine distributor can't get a new trial in her equal pay and discrimination suit because a Maine federal court correctly turned down her arguments that a juror was biased, the First Circuit ruled.
The California Supreme Court's decision Thursday upholding Proposition 22 on constitutional grounds means the statewide ballot measure from 2020 is safe for now, though the justices left open the possibility that state lawmakers could intervene, attorneys said. Here, Law360 explores reactions to the ruling.
The California Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the Proposition 22 statewide ballot measure from 2020 that exempts certain app-based drivers from the state's independent contractor classification law, a ruling that could have widespread consequences for the gig economy and driver litigation.
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A female sales representative for a beer and wine distributor can't get a new trial in her equal pay and discrimination suit because a Maine federal court correctly turned down her arguments that a juror was biased, the First Circuit ruled.
The California Supreme Court's decision Thursday upholding Proposition 22 on constitutional grounds means the statewide ballot measure from 2020 is safe for now, though the justices left open the possibility that state lawmakers could intervene, attorneys said. Here, Law360 explores reactions to the ruling.
The California Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the Proposition 22 statewide ballot measure from 2020 that exempts certain app-based drivers from the state's independent contractor classification law, a ruling that could have widespread consequences for the gig economy and driver litigation.
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July 26, 2024
A Maryland federal judge refused to toss a former CBS News station manager's claim alleging her former bosses at Paramount unlawfully withheld her bonus pay after she was terminated, but said the bosses themselves don't have to face the allegation because they weren't her employer.
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July 26, 2024
Domino's Pizza said Thursday a law firm that lost a case claiming delivery drivers weren't properly reimbursed for expenses should know its new suit against the company will fail for the same reasons, asking a Michigan federal judge for sanctions because the firm should know the new plaintiff must also arbitrate her claims.
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July 26, 2024
A former trading director has told a Colorado state judge that the natural gas marketing company he worked for has no grounds to escape a Denver jury's $3.3 million damages award over his unpaid bonus, arguing that the jurors clearly found in his favor.
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July 26, 2024
A home healthcare company, a nonemergency medical transportation service and their owner will pay more than $31,000 to end a U.S. Department of Labor suit alleging the South Carolina-based companies misclassified workers, according to court papers filed Friday.
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July 26, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for oral arguments at the Ninth Circuit regarding whether warehouse workers are interstate transportation workers and therefore exempt from federal arbitration requirements. Here's a look at that proposed class action and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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July 26, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor didn't support its claims that Hyundai knew a 13-year-old was working on an assembly line, the company said as it asked an Alabama federal court to dismiss the allegations.
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July 26, 2024
A Drexel University philosophy professor failed to show the mistreatment she said she faced from male professors amounted to unlawful sex bias as opposed to a merely unpleasant workplace, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled, knocking out much of her suit but letting an equal pay claim move ahead.
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July 25, 2024
A driver alleging FedEx illegally deprived him of overtime wages can't prove the shipping giant deliberately violated federal labor laws, the company told a Massachusetts federal judge Thursday in a bid to limit the amount of damages the worker can seek to recover at trial.
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July 25, 2024
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday scrapped from a proposed rule requirements for federal contractors to attest that they were following federal and state labor laws, tossing President Barack Obama's efforts an earlier version of the rule revamped.
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July 25, 2024
A startup technology firm's description of updates to its arbitration pact were "wildly inaccurate and misleading," a California appeals court found, affirming a lower court's refusal to enforce the agreement in a worker's wage, discrimination and retaliation lawsuit as the former version the worker signed was completely different.
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July 25, 2024
A South Carolina federal contractor handed over more than $1 million in back wages for paying 43 workers improper rates, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Thursday.
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July 25, 2024
Discovery in a patent attorney's suit against his former firm, Pittsburgh-based Keevican Weiss & Bauerle LLC, has produced enough evidence to support summary judgment on some of his claims, according to a new motion filed this week in Allegheny County.
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July 25, 2024
A former support technician at Foley Hoag LLP accused the firm of "egregious violations of wage and hour laws" in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in New York federal court.
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July 25, 2024
A Dallas HVAC company paid more than $1.5 million in overtime wages and damages for misclassifying 430 technicians, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Thursday.
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July 25, 2024
The Second Circuit should keep its earlier decision that two food distributors must arbitrate claims that Flower Foods and two subsidiaries misclassified them as independent contractors because the duo didn't perform transportation work, the companies said.
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July 25, 2024
Kristina Yost of Jones Day has acted as lead counsel for Bloomberg LP in several high-profile Fair Labor Standards Act suits, helped a manufacturing company defeat a suit claiming it failed to pay overtime and worked to resolve an age discrimination case against IBM, earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 25, 2024
Shipman & Goodwin LLP has expanded its employment litigation capabilities with the addition of an attorney from Murtha Cullina LLP.
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July 25, 2024
Labor and employment firm Littler Mendelson PC is getting some new office heads, announcing Wednesday it has named new office managing shareholders for five of its U.S. offices — San Diego, San Jose, Indianapolis, Denver and Portland, Oregon.
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July 24, 2024
College athletes suing for a cut of NCAA television revenue in Colorado federal court have stressed that they will continue to litigate even if the settlement of a massive class action over name, image and likeness rights in California receives court approval.
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July 24, 2024
A Virginia federal judge sent to arbitration a worker's claims that a healthcare staffing company automatically deducted meal breaks from employees' time sheets and required them to perform off-the-clock work, ruling that the arbitration agreement the parties signed should be honored.
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July 24, 2024
A former Grubhub driver didn't work for the food delivery company after California passed Proposition 22 and therefore he can't pursue claims under the state's Private Attorneys General Act, a California federal judge ruled.
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July 24, 2024
The Sixth Circuit on Wednesday pressed Geico about plan documents reviewed by a lower court when it tossed agents' claims they were misclassified as independent contractors, floating the possibility of sending the case back for limited discovery.
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July 24, 2024
A potential new frontier in the "arms race" of arbitration has cropped up in a misclassification case involving an employer who rolled out an arbitration program well into litigation — a move attorneys say might be so aggressive as to represent a red line for courts.
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July 24, 2024
A Long Island restaurant won't have to face a worker's lawsuit alleging it unlawfully retained a service charge instead of distributing it among servers as promised after a New York federal judge on Wednesday adopted a magistrate judge's reasoning that the service charge was not a voluntarily paid tip.
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July 24, 2024
Staffing industry groups can't halt a New Jersey law strengthening protections for temporary workers because it doesn't discriminate between out-of-state and in-state companies and is therefore constitutional, the Third Circuit ruled Wednesday, affirming a district court's ruling.