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6 Construction Companies Accused Of Using Race-based Pay Scale: Whites At...
The Daily News is reporting that, “[s]ix construction companies are accused in a new state lawsuit of paying their employees according to their race – with whites at the top and Latinos at the bottom....
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Tyson Foods Found In Violation Of Fair Labor Standards Act In Donning And...
Reuters is reporting that “Tyson Foods Inc., one of the nation’s largest poultry producers, has been found in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) at its Blountsville, Ala., facility. The...
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Low-wage Workers Suffer High Rate Of Workplace Abuse and Wage Theft, UCLA...
UCLA Today, a periodical covering faculty and staff news at UCLA has released a story summarizing the findings of a recent study conducted by 3 UCLA researchers, that examined the frequency of labor...
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Growth of Unpaid Internships May Be Illegal, New York Times Reports
Today’s NY Times reports that there is a growing trend of employers, who illegally deem workers, entitled to be paid at least minimum wage, to be unpaid “interns.” The article reports that, “[w]ith job...
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E.D.Va.: Applicant For A Job May Not Assert An Action For FLSA Retaliation,...
Dellinger v. Science Applications Intern. Corp. This case was before the Court on a Motion to Dismiss filed by Defendant. Plaintiff alleged that Defendant violated the anti-retaliation provision of...
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Wal-Mart Settles Wage And Hour Lawsuit For Up To $86 Million, Reuters Reports
Reuters is reporting that Wal-Mart has agreed to pay up to $86 Million to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing it of failing to pay vacation, overtime and other wages to thousands of former workers...
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Arbitrator Rules That Massachusetts Trial Court System Must Pay Workers $30...
The Boston Herald is reporting that an Arbitrator has ruled that Massachusetts’ Trial Court system must pay its clerical workers $30 million in unpaid pay increases. “In what is being called the...
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Florida Sued For Failing To Raise Minimum Wage, In Accordance With The...
The Miami Herald reports that: “Two legal groups sued Florida’s labor agency Monday, claiming the state failed to raise the state’s minimum wage by six cents per hour this year to keep up with...
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Are the FLSA’s Enterprise Coverage Requirements Outdated in Today’s Economy?
In his recent article, “Taking the Employer Out of Employment Law? Accountability for Wage and Hour Violations in an Age of Enterprise Disaggregation,” Professor, Timothy P. Glynn of Seton Hall School...
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11th Cir.: District Court Correctly Refused to Enforce Arbitration Agreement...
Billingsley v. Citi Trends, Inc. Employers seem to getting increasingly aggressive with class waivers, arbitration agreements in the wake of recent high court rulings which are seemingly boundless. In...
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