The U.S. Department of Labor’s new Wage and Hour Division political appointees came from firms that have defended management in wage litigation, companies that have faced employment law claims, a Senate committee that scrutinized the Biden DOL and a state that is considered employer-friendly. Here, Law360 looks at the new leadership team.
Attorney Jeff Ruzal said the recent amendment to New York’s Labor Law reducing the steep liability for frequency-of-pay claims is welcome reform for the state's employers, but the change is narrow and questions remain about key threshold issues. Here Law360 speaks with Ruzal, an expert in New York wage and hour law, about the future of frequency-of-pay claims.
High-ranking district chiefs cannot claim they are shielded from overtime pay exemptions because they are first responders, a Florida federal judge ruled, but the Orlando Fire Department has not shown that it was in the clear to deny them the premium wages.
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The U.S. Department of Labor’s new Wage and Hour Division political appointees came from firms that have defended management in wage litigation, companies that have faced employment law claims, a Senate committee that scrutinized the Biden DOL and a state that is considered employer-friendly. Here, Law360 looks at the new leadership team.
Attorney Jeff Ruzal said the recent amendment to New York’s Labor Law reducing the steep liability for frequency-of-pay claims is welcome reform for the state's employers, but the change is narrow and questions remain about key threshold issues. Here Law360 speaks with Ruzal, an expert in New York wage and hour law, about the future of frequency-of-pay claims.
High-ranking district chiefs cannot claim they are shielded from overtime pay exemptions because they are first responders, a Florida federal judge ruled, but the Orlando Fire Department has not shown that it was in the clear to deny them the premium wages.
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A group of strip clubs made "conclusory assertions" in their bid to dodge $14 million in fines the city of Denver lodged against them for pay practice allegations, a Colorado federal judge ruled, saying that the entities didn't prove a constitutional violation.
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Coal miners again asked a Kentucky federal judge Friday to greenlight a $15.2 million deal resolving their unpaid wage suit against several mining companies, presenting a restructured agreement that eliminates collective claims and discusses the degree of similarity among workers in a proposed, nearly 7,000-member settlement class.
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May 30, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for California Supreme Court oral arguments regarding what an employer must show for a good faith defense in a wage case. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in the Golden State.
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May 30, 2025
The U.S. Department of Labor failed to show it would be necessary to push back litigation challenging a Biden-era H-2A wage rule, especially in the context of farm groups' ongoing harm allegations, a Florida federal judge ruled.
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May 30, 2025
A Michigan federal court greenlighted an $86,000 settlement resolving an insurance specialist's collective action accusing a home healthcare company of failing to pay employees for the time they spent booting up their computers.
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This week, a New York federal judge will hear arguments over whether a class of former workers at a Four Seasons hotel can withdraw their request for a jury trial in their suit claiming the hotel did not provide required notices before laying them off.
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May 30, 2025
A former kitchen worker for a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center is no longer pursuing his claims that the nonprofit failed to pay him minimum and overtime wages, and sometimes didn't pay him at all, according to a filing Friday in Georgia federal court.
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A clean energy manufacturing company failed to pay a former employee all his wages and then fired him after he raised safety concerns, the worker told a North Carolina federal court Friday.
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The Office of Personnel Management on Thursday issued two memos outlining plans for hiring federal workers based on merit, following President Donald Trump's executive orders declaring that the federal hiring system focuses too much on anti-discrimination and not enough on employees willing to serve the executive branch.
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May 29, 2025
The Second Circuit refused Thursday to revive a former paramedic's lawsuit claiming an ambulance operator unlawfully refused to return him to a supervisory job after he returned from medical leave, saying he wasn't able to work until three months after his federally protected leave expired.
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May 29, 2025
The founder and former CEO of Masimo Corp. has alleged six of the medical technology company's directors orchestrated his wrongful termination and denied him the compensation he is now owed, according to a suit for hundreds of millions of dollars filed against the executives in California state court.
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May 29, 2025
Washington state's Department of Labor and Industries does not need to issue a formal letter demanding an employer pay a specific sum to employees before launching a wage and hour lawsuit, the state's supreme court held Thursday, upending a cannabis company's win in a lawsuit the agency launched against it.
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May 29, 2025
A lawsuit accusing an Arizona-based home appraisal company of failing to pay real estate staff appraisers overtime will move to Illinois, after a New York federal judge agreed with a magistrate judge's recommendations that the case needed to move to where the key witnesses are.
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May 29, 2025
TikTok sales representatives must arbitrate their claims that they were misclassified as overtime-exempt, the social media platform told a California federal court, arguing that the workers signed valid arbitration pacts and that an arbitrator should decide any enforceability issues,
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May 29, 2025
A former employee can't seek front pay or be reinstated to her role at a healthcare staffing firm after a federal jury found she was fired for exercising her rights under the Family and Medical Leave Act, but certain damages the jury awarded her should be given another look, the Ninth Circuit ruled.
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An Illinois federal judge narrowed a class of drivers accusing a company that provides hazmat freight delivery services of misclassifying them as independent contractors, targeting the class to one of the classification test's prongs and letting out-of-state residents join.
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A lending company required loan processors to put in about 80 hours of work during some weeks but did not pay them overtime wages for the extra time, a worker said in a proposed collective action filed in Arizona federal court.
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An Oregon-based flooring manufacturer has been sued in Georgia federal court by a group of Chinese nationals who allege they were brought to the U.S. to work at a flooring manufacturing facility in Cartersville, Georgia, then exploited, underpaid and subjected to forced labor.
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The U.S. Department of Justice is pointing to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling to bolster its fight against a new trial being sought by a convicted Nevada nursing home executive, saying that the new high court decision establishes that economic loss isn't needed to prove wire fraud.
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A New Jersey law requiring employers to include a pay range in both internal and external job postings goes into effect June 1, and businesses in the state should be sure they have their ducks in a row. Here, management-side lawyers offer four tips to help employers prepare.
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An ambulance service will have to shell out the remaining $42,500 it owes to a group of emergency medical technicians and paramedics to settle their overtime after having missed payment deadlines several times, a Florida federal court ordered Wednesday.
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Snow sport instructors cannot revisit previous court orders denying class treatment in their wage and hour lawsuit against Vail Resorts, a Colorado federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying the case will proceed in its current form as a collective action.
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A new lawsuit from a onetime executive assistant at Stone Hilton PLLC alleges various forms of misconduct at the firm and claims that one of its founders resigned from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office amid sexual harassment allegations.
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May 28, 2025
A New Jersey personal injury law firm will not be able to escape a former employee's lawsuit alleging she was paid less than men and harassed while pregnant, a state court judge ruled, saying that she fulfilled discovery demands.
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May 28, 2025
The University of Utah is an arm of the state and is therefore shielded against a proposed class and collective action accusing it of failing to pay customer service workers for the time they spent booting up their computers, the school told a federal court.