442 results for 'nos:"Fair Labor Standards Act - Labor"'.
J. Kennelly partially grants account executive employees’ motion for sanctions against their employer, a logistics firm. The employees accused the firm of wrongly denying them overtime pay, and in subsequent proceedings a magistrate judge found the firm had violated its discovery obligations. This court affirms some of the objections the firm had raised to the magistrate judge’s sanction recommendations, but overrules others. The court also orders the firm to pay the employees almost $88,000 in attorney fees.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kennelly, Filed On: April 15, 2024, Case #: 1:16cv7331, NOS: Fair Labor Standards Act - Labor, Categories: Sanctions, Attorney Fees, Class Action
J. Talwani denies a real estate services company’s motion to transfer a class action brought against it by former employees to the Eastern District of Michigan, or to dismiss the claims of any members of the class not from Michigan. The forum selection clause of the company’s severance agreement only applies to claims related to the severance agreement, not to state laws regarding proper overtime pay.
Court: USDC Massachusetts, Judge: Talwani, Filed On: April 12, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv11639, NOS: Fair Labor Standards Act - Labor, Categories: Employment, Workers' Compensation, Labor
J. McGlynn rules a former Walmart employee may pursue race discrimination against the superstore. The employee sufficiently alleged that she was terminated because she is Black, due to her supervisor's racist views, and not for disciplinary issues.
Court: USDC Southern District of Illinois, Judge: McGlynn, Filed On: April 11, 2024, Case #: 3:23cv1926, NOS: Fair Labor Standards Act - Labor, Categories: Civil Rights, Employment, Employment Discrimination
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J. North grants a request by two employees who prevailed in an overtime-pay suit against their employer at a residential heating, air conditioning, and ventilation installer, awarding them $23,000 in attorney fees and costs. The requested $37,000 in fees and costs is reduced, in part, by a reduction in hourly rates.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Louisiana , Judge: North, Filed On: April 10, 2024, Case #: 2:22cv3953, NOS: Fair Labor Standards Act - Labor, Categories: Employment, Attorney Fees, Labor
J. Currault awards sanctions of $9,000 in attorney fees and costs to three health care companies and against a collective suit of patient-care employees alleging violations of federal labor laws, including overtime and mealtime. Although the health care companies sought $18,000 for the employees’ alleged violations of discovery rules, that was reduced due to the use of “block billing,” which made ‘“it impossible for the court to determine the reasonableness of the hours spent on each task’.”
Court: USDC Eastern District of Louisiana , Judge: Currault, Filed On: April 4, 2024, Case #: 2:20cv1515, NOS: Fair Labor Standards Act - Labor, Categories: Civil Procedure, Discovery, Attorney Fees
J. Waldor rules partially in favor of the supermarket, which allegedly failed to pay the employees overtime. The employees have plausibly challenged the accuracy of payroll records showing they were not properly compensated, and there is conflicting evidence supporting the company's request to establish a method of computing the overtime rates.
Court: USDC New Jersey, Judge: Waldor , Filed On: April 3, 2024, Case #: 2:18cv10486, NOS: Fair Labor Standards Act - Labor, Categories: Employment
J. Upadhyaya grants the employee's petition for attorneys' fees and costs in the amount of $10,421.68, finding that the requested amount is reasonable, sufficiently supported and timely.
Court: USDC District of Columbia, Judge: Upadhyaya, Filed On: March 31, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv1816, NOS: Fair Labor Standards Act - Labor, Categories: Attorney Fees, Labor
J. Hall rules in favor of a Brooklyn nightclub and dismisses a bartender’s labor law complaint alleging claims for unpaid wages, unlawful deductions, wage statement and notice violations and retaliation. The complaint fails to provide any documentation showing the nightclub earned more than $500,000 in annual revenue, therefore it is not a covered employer under Fair Labor Standards Act.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Hall, Filed On: March 29, 2024, Case #: 1:20cv2842, NOS: Fair Labor Standards Act - Labor, Categories: Employment, Labor
J. Tiscione grants summary judgment to an octogenarian and his son, who were sued by the woman they paid to take care of the elder man at his home for four years. She says they failed to pay her overtime, but the court finds she was covered by the companionship services exception to the Fair Labor Standards Act, which applies to jobs that primarily involve light housework for older or infirm clients.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Tiscione, Filed On: March 28, 2024, Case #: 2:21cv550, NOS: Fair Labor Standards Act - Labor, Categories: Employment, Labor
J. Johnson grants the employee's motion for liquidated damages and partly grants his motion for attorney fees after a jury verdict in his favor on a claim under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Because the employers' actions were willful, the employee is awarded $9,894 in liquidated damages. Also, after a reduction in the lodestar amount, he is awarded $19,805 in attorney fees.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Texas , Judge: Johnson, Filed On: March 28, 2024, Case #: 4:19cv626, NOS: Fair Labor Standards Act - Labor, Categories: Damages, Labor
J. Pepper partially grants the employee's motion for partial summary judgment in her class action claiming the memory care facility violated the Fair Labor Standards Act and Wisconsin wage law by failing to pay employees for time spent undergoing Covid-19 screenings and making unlawful pay deductions for meal breaks. The employee's motion is granted with relation to the Covid-19 screenings, and it is found as a matter of law that the time spent doing the screenings was "indispensable and integral" to the work of the employee and others in her position. The employee's motion for reconsideration regarding the opt-in time period in the notice of suit sent to class members is granted, and her motion to reopen discovery is partially granted so more discovery can take place regarding class members.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Wisconsin, Judge: Pepper, Filed On: March 28, 2024, Case #: 2:21cv358, NOS: Fair Labor Standards Act - Labor, Categories: Employment, Labor
J. Amon awards a bakery employee $169,773 in attorney fees and $8,062 in costs after he prevailed on his New York labor law claims at trial. The court reduces the attorneys’ requested hourly rates to $450 and $100, respectively, representing a 25% reduction in the amount requested.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Amon, Filed On: March 28, 2024, Case #: 1:20cv1319, NOS: Fair Labor Standards Act - Labor, Categories: Attorney Fees, Labor
J. Bulsara rules on a motion for partial summary judgment and finds in favor of a female bartender on her two wage statement violation claims against a New York City gentlemen’s club, awarding her $10,000 in statutory damages. She provides enough evidence to show both that she was not provided a wage notice within her first 10 days of employment and that her wage statements failed to list basic wage information. The court preserves her remaining claims for trial.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Bulsara, Filed On: March 27, 2024, Case #: 1:21cv3766, NOS: Fair Labor Standards Act - Labor, Categories: Employment, Business Practices, Labor
J. Alston grants the IT recruitment company's motion to dismiss. The company's model offers young IT professionals premium training in the field with the guarantee that they will be contracted to Fortune 500 companies afterward. Several recruits claim they work 40-hour-plus weeks on minimum wage for over three months while completing their training. Recruits also sign contracts preventing them from quitting during the training period or the first few years working with a client without paying thousands of dollars in penalties. Because the recruits haven't quit or been terminated, they have yet to pay any penalties, making their claims toothless.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Virginia, Judge: Alston , Filed On: March 27, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv491, NOS: Fair Labor Standards Act - Labor, Categories: Employment, Labor
J. Donnell declines to enter judgment in favor of the U.S. Department of Labor on the department’s Fair Labor Standards Act complaint alleging two companies, which provide “spotholding” services for a New York energy company, willfully misclassified its employees as independent contractors to get out of paying overtime wages. The court is unable to make a determination as to whether the litigants were in fact employees or independent contractors.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Donnelly, Filed On: March 27, 2024, Case #: 1:21cv57, NOS: Fair Labor Standards Act - Labor, Categories: Employment, Class Action, Labor