Three former Twitter executives can proceed with their claim that Elon Musk and the company owe them millions in severance benefits after falsely claiming they were fired justly, a California federal judge ruled, pointing to another suit mirroring nearly identical allegations.
A rally of workers claiming DoorDash stole their pay demonstrates how gig companies continue to face wage allegations even after reaching high-profile settlements with state attorneys general.
Equal pay laws have evolved at a rapid clip in recent years, yet the pay gap widened, illustrating the lingering impact of COVID-19 on the workforce and the importance of continued innovation, attorneys say.
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Three former Twitter executives can proceed with their claim that Elon Musk and the company owe them millions in severance benefits after falsely claiming they were fired justly, a California federal judge ruled, pointing to another suit mirroring nearly identical allegations.
A rally of workers claiming DoorDash stole their pay demonstrates how gig companies continue to face wage allegations even after reaching high-profile settlements with state attorneys general.
Equal pay laws have evolved at a rapid clip in recent years, yet the pay gap widened, illustrating the lingering impact of COVID-19 on the workforce and the importance of continued innovation, attorneys say.
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April 30, 2025
A Tennessee federal court erred in turning down a nurse's bid to reach others in her suit accusing Acadia Healthcare of meal break violations and unpaid overtime because her discovery issues were not resolved, the nurse said, urging the Sixth Circuit to weigh in.
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April 30, 2025
A U.S. Marine Corps reservist urged a Texas federal court to keep in play his lawsuit alleging a professional services company fired him after two months because he took time off to attend training, saying the firm's reasoning that he was let go for poor performance is bogus.
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April 30, 2025
A Kentucky federal judge declined to greenlight a $15.2 million settlement resolving miners' class and collective action against several mining companies over unpaid wages, saying the deal must be revised because the wage and hour landscape has changed over the past few years.
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April 30, 2025
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals implemented an illegal 24/7 on-call policy that cheated social media employees of wages and overtime, and terminated those who complained about it, a former employee said in a lawsuit in California state court.
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April 30, 2025
A Texas federal court ruled that it still had jurisdiction over a server's proposed collective action accusing a Houston-area restaurant of violating tip credit requirements, saying the worker has not accepted a $1,000 offer to end her case.
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April 30, 2025
Japanese retailers Muji and Uniqlo illegally paid employees biweekly despite the New York Labor Law requiring that manual workers be paid at the end of each workweek, according to two proposed class and collective actions filed separately against the companies in federal court.
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April 30, 2025
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP has deepened its labor and employment practice group with a partner in Austin who also serves as co-chair of the firm's higher education industry team and came aboard from Littler Mendelson PC.
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April 30, 2025
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers unveiled legislation Wednesday that they said would expand access to paid family leave by incentivizing states to establish their own programs and facilitating the exchange of information between state and federal officials.
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April 30, 2025
New York City paid nearly $2 billion last year to settle legal claims, setting a record high for the payouts with a half-billion dollar increase over the previous year, according to new data released by the city's fiscal watchdog on Wednesday.
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April 30, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that federally employed military reservists called to active duty during wartime or a national emergency are entitled to a top-up differential pay, regardless of their specific role.
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April 29, 2025
A New York state contractor that helps administer a Medicaid program has forced thousands of caregivers to face a "dizzying array of technical problems" and caused many to not receive any pay over the past month, a proposed class and collective action filed in federal court said.
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April 29, 2025
Former digital media startup The Messenger will pay $4.5 million to 275 workers who claimed the company didn't respect the firing notice timeline federal law mandates, after a New York federal judge greenlighted the deal.
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April 29, 2025
Labor and employment firm Littler Mendelson PC is expanding its California arbitration team, announcing Tuesday that it is welcoming back an employment attorney who left briefly to join Whitney Thompson & Jeffcoach LLP.
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April 29, 2025
An Arkansas disability care center will pay $130,000 to resolve a collective action accusing it of denying workers pay for overnight hours they spent caring for in-home patients, a filing in federal court said.
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April 28, 2025
Two registered nurses agreed to drop their claims of unpaid wages against the two locations of a Michigan healthcare system they had accused in federal court of requiring them to work through meal breaks without pay, ending the case Monday in federal court.
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April 28, 2025
Spa workers told a Hawaii federal court they satisfactorily backed up their allegations that a Waldorf Astoria profited from not compensating them properly and that it retaliated against them after their suit was filed, urging the court to deny the company's bid to shake the suit.
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April 28, 2025
The United Parcel Service deducted hundreds of dollars from unionized workers' April 3 paychecks without their consent, a Teamsters unit and four employees told a New York federal court.
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April 28, 2025
Days after a civil suit claiming Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky PC violated fair labor standards ended with a jury verdict in favor of the firm, a former paralegal filed a complaint in Philadelphia federal court alleging she was subjected to harassment and discriminating comments up until her resignation.
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April 28, 2025
Reed Smith LLP has added a Squire Patton Boggs LLP partner to its Atlanta office, strengthening its labor and employment practice after opening the office in January, the firm announced on Monday.
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April 28, 2025
Health insurer Elevance can't justify its decision to deny nurses overtime wages using one of the exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act, a collective of workers told a North Carolina federal court, asking for a pretrial win in their suit.
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April 25, 2025
A Massachusetts federal judge refused to nix a former Harvard University ice hockey coach's sex bias suit alleging she was paid less than her male colleagues, issuing an order Friday that agreed with a magistrate judge's report rejecting Harvard's argument that her claims were filed too late.
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April 25, 2025
Former digital media startup The Messenger has agreed to pay $4.5 million to a class of 275 workers who claimed in New York federal court that the company didn't give them enough notice about its layoffs and shutdown, the parties said on Friday.
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April 25, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for arguments regarding conditional collective certification in a discrimination suit against Workday Inc. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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April 25, 2025
A Johnson & Johnson-owned prosthetics company does not have to face claims that an engineer filed his lawsuit, alleging violations of the Family and Medical Leave Act, too late, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled Friday, but determined some of the allegations are timely and can proceed.
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April 25, 2025
A former employee of a personal injury law firm has failed to respond to its discovery requests in her lawsuit alleging she was paid less than men and harassed while she was pregnant, and her case should therefore be thrown out, the firm told a New Jersey state court.