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April 22, 2025
Aviation services provider Swissport will pay more than $3.1 million in penalties and restitution to workers at Boston's Logan International Airport to settle allegations that it violated Massachusetts wage laws, the state attorney general's office announced Tuesday.
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April 22, 2025
A banking company and a former worker agreed to end his proposed collective action accusing the bank of creating fraudulent time records that understated how long loan officers worked to avoid paying them overtime wages, a Texas federal court filing said.
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April 21, 2025
Pay transparency litigation in Washington state highlights the enforcement challenges associated with defining who is a job applicant and offers lessons to other jurisdictions on how to balance these laws' goals with facilitating compliance, attorneys say.
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April 21, 2025
A California judge indicated Monday she may send to arbitration a former JPMorgan Chase Bank worker's individual claim brought under the Private Attorneys General Act alleging the bank encouraged workers to perform off-the-clock work but failed to pay them accordingly, issuing a tentative order that would split off her representative claims and pause them.
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April 21, 2025
New Jersey's attorney general on Monday announced a lawsuit against a general contractor and a group of subcontractors for shorting workers on wages and benefits during the construction of a Jersey City luxury high-rise.
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April 21, 2025
Workers who sued a project management company for allegedly failing to pay proper overtime rates have asked a Georgia federal judge for summary judgment, arguing the company pays employees based on the number of hours worked and, therefore, fails the salary basis test for an overtime exemption.
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April 21, 2025
The arbitration awards a group of X workers tried to present to a Delaware federal court don't add anything to their suit claiming the social media platform owes them additional severance payments, the court ruled, striking them from the docket.
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April 21, 2025
Potential members of a collective action accusing Amazon of misclassifying drivers were not coerced into talking to attorneys representing the company, Amazon told a Washington federal court, urging the court to reject the drivers' bid to slap sanctions on the company.
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April 21, 2025
The U.S. Department of Justice is defending a key wage-fixing and fraud conviction of a Nevada nursing executive, hitting back at the executive's claims that it used privileged documents and communications to sway the jury during the three-week trial.
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April 21, 2025
HCA Healthcare Inc. asked a North Carolina federal court to press pause on a respiratory therapist's class and collective action accusing the company of manipulating workers' time sheets to pay them less overtime wages, saying the parties are planning to attend mediation in July.
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April 21, 2025
A claims management company paid a former executive less than three of her male colleagues with the same work duties, then fired her after she filed a charge with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, she told a Georgia federal court.
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April 21, 2025
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP announced Monday that the firm has fortified its employment class action group with a partner in San Francisco who came aboard from Morrison Foerster LLP.
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April 21, 2025
An attorney cannot sustain his lawsuit accusing the city of Martinsville, Virginia, of unlawfully firing him after he requested leave to care for his mother, the city told a federal court, saying it had no power to terminate him because it was not his employer.
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April 21, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to review a Fifth Circuit decision finding a welding inspector was an independent contractor, not an employee, and therefore not entitled to Fair Labor Standards Act coverage.
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April 18, 2025
It's too soon to determine whether a landscaping company should be sanctioned for its attorneys' failure to produce accurate lists of its current and former employees in a class action alleging unpaid overtime, a Kansas federal judge said, saying both sides' attorneys need to meet.
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April 18, 2025
The Office of Personnel Management on Friday proposed a rule that would give President Donald Trump's administration the power to hire and fire some 50,000 career federal employees, a move that federal worker unions say will allow the president "to replace qualified public servants with political cronies."
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April 18, 2025
A former chief counsel for Sunoco LP sued her ex-employer in Texas state court Wednesday, alleging she was denied promotional opportunities and later terminated due to her age, while also accusing the company of replacing attorneys older than 50 with significantly younger attorneys with less experience.
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April 18, 2025
The Trump administration faced off with two BigLaw firms in lawsuits over executive orders, a group of law students sued the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over its demand for law firm diversity information and the American Bar Association was sued for race discrimination. Here, Law360 looks at notable DEI-related legal developments from the past week.
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April 18, 2025
Cleveland health system MetroHealth has asked a federal court in Ohio to toss a potential class action alleging a failure to properly pay workers overtime, telling the judge a nursing assistant had not proved the healthcare provider violated the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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April 18, 2025
Delaware would exempt eligible workers' overtime pay from state income tax under a bill introduced in the state House of Representatives.
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April 18, 2025
Attorneys out of Philadelphia and New Jersey have merged their practices to start a new law firm focused on employment, criminal, civil rights and survivor's rights law, the partners announced earlier this week.
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April 18, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for potential initial approval of an almost $20 million class action settlement involving three Raytheon companies. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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April 18, 2025
In the coming week, a New York federal judge will consider a hospital's request to toss a suit brought by a doctor who claims she was discriminated against on the basis of her race and gender and retaliated against when she complained.
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April 18, 2025
A D.C. federal judge once again halted the layoffs of more than 1,000 employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, saying at an emergency hearing Friday morning that she needed a full record to determine whether the firings complied with a D.C. Circuit order from last week.
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April 17, 2025
A pharmacist's objections to a $10.4 million settlement of a wage and hour class action affecting 24,000 CVS employees hold no weight, a Ninth Circuit panel found, ruling Thursday that a California federal judge adequately considered the merits of each objection before tossing them.