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June 04, 2025
Several migrant workers for a farm labor contracting company testified they weren't forced to turn over their passports or work 20-hour days as the company sought to defend itself against human trafficking claims before a Michigan federal jury on Wednesday.
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June 04, 2025
A worker's counsel urged the California Supreme Court on Wednesday to find that employers must show they proactively took steps to ensure its pay practices complied with state requirements to establish a good faith defense against liquidated damages, while the employer's counsel declined to address the merits of the appeal.
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June 04, 2025
A former Davis Wright Tremaine LLP attorney representing employers in wage-and-hour disputes and traditional labor matters has started as a partner at Fisher Phillips LLP in Seattle, the firm announced, and will remain focused on tackling labor and employment claims for his clients.
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June 04, 2025
Seven recent decisions support an automobile parts company's bid to nix class and collective claims in a workers' lawsuit alleging they were shorted on wages, the firm told a North Carolina federal court Wednesday, saying those cases show that the allegations cannot stand because they were filed too late.
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June 04, 2025
General Motors miscalculated employees' overtime by failing to factor cost-of-living adjustment pay in their regular rate of pay, a former employee said in a proposed collective action filed in Michigan federal court.
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June 04, 2025
Southern Colorado Waste and Recycling knew that drivers were working straight through their designated meal breaks but deducted 30 minutes of working time from their paychecks anyway, a proposed class and collective action filed in federal court said.
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June 04, 2025
Nationwide injunctions could be on the chopping block at the U.S. Supreme Court over President Donald Trump's birthright citizenship order, sparking debate over the role they play in wage and hour law by curtailing regulatory overreach and helping employers operate with predictable compliance obligations, attorneys say.
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June 04, 2025
Lawyers for a pair of former Atlanta strip club workers called on a federal judge Wednesday to reject an "extremely untimely" bid to disqualify them by the clubs' owners, arguing the owners don't bother to substantiate their claims that the plaintiffs can't be represented by the same counsel because one was the other's supervisor.
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June 04, 2025
A company providing client intake and retention services to law firms misclassified consultants as independent contractors and paid them only for the time they spent on calls or were available to take them, a worker said in a proposed collective action in Tennessee federal court.
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June 04, 2025
More than half of chief compliance officers are considering seeking new job opportunities in the coming year, according to a Wednesday report from in-house legal and compliance advisory firm BarkerGilmore LLC, which also found CCO pay growth generally slowed down compared to last year.
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June 04, 2025
Perdue Foods' bid to boot seven opt-in plaintiffs from a suit accusing the company of misclassifying poultry growers as independent contractors is an "impermissible attempt" to circumvent discovery, the workers told a Maryland federal court.
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June 04, 2025
A $1 typo should not doom Orlando's bid for a pretrial win in a suit by district fire chiefs alleging they were wrongly denied overtime, the city told a Florida federal court, arguing the workers' salaries actually do fall under the overtime exemption.
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June 03, 2025
The Trump administration's proposed $25 million in cuts to the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division budget indicates that it plans to rely more on guidance than enforcement, agency veterans and other employment law observers said.
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June 03, 2025
A Toyota dealership and the operators of a cleaning company failed to appropriately compensate a worker for his minimum, overtime and spread-of-hours wages, the worker claimed in a lawsuit filed in New York federal court, saying he resigned out of fear he would face retaliation for bringing the suit.
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June 03, 2025
Home Depot will pay $3.35 million to resolve a nearly 13-year-old Private Attorneys General Act lawsuit accusing it of improperly recording workers' shifts that went past midnight, which caused their overtime hours to drop, a filing in California federal court said.
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June 03, 2025
New York state's largest healthcare provider and a staffing firm unlawfully round down the amount of time employees spend working and deduct 30 minutes from their hours regardless of whether they took a break, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court.
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June 03, 2025
HCA Healthcare Inc. manipulated workers' time sheets so that they were paid less, a respiratory therapist said while urging a North Carolina court to greenlight a collective in her wage suit.
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June 03, 2025
A former in-house attorney for clothing giant Gap Inc. rejoined the private practice space as a partner in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at Fisher Phillips, the firm announced Tuesday.
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June 03, 2025
T-Mobile can't end a former employee's suit claiming she was given a minimal bonus and eventually terminated because she's Black, a Washington state federal judge ruled, saying the company's assertion that she had performance issues was inconsistent with the evidence.
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June 03, 2025
A rebound in client work sent the nation’s largest law firms into growth mode last year, driving a wave of hiring, mergers and strategic moves that reshaped the top tier of the Law360 400. Here's a preview of the 100 firms with the largest U.S. attorney headcounts.
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June 03, 2025
Mortgage loan officers will have to turn over certain documents in discovery related to their suit accusing Bank of America of misclassifying them as overtime-exempt, a North Carolina federal judge ruled, narrowing certain requests and keeping tax returns out.
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June 03, 2025
Two nurses failed to back up their assertions that a hospital system similarly refused to provide their colleagues with meal and rest breaks, a California state appeals court ruled, upholding an order that decertified two subclasses in their wage suit.
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June 02, 2025
A Nevada nursing home executive convicted of wage-fixing and wire fraud has told a Nevada federal judge that a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a fraud case doesn't preclude his motion for a new trial, contrary to what the U.S. Department of Justice has argued.
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June 02, 2025
Charles Schwab classifies workers as overtime-exempt even though their duties make them eligible for overtime, a former employee said in a proposed collective action filed in Texas federal court.
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June 02, 2025
A Japanese restaurant will pay more than $1.8 million to resolve an investigation into its requirement that service workers share their tips with managerial employees, the Massachusetts attorney general announced Monday.