/employment-authority/wage-hour?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Employment Authority Wage & Hour Copyright 2025 ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ. en-US Mon, 19 May 2025 22:32:58 +0000 /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2342390?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2342390 Gilead Sciences and its subsidiary Kite Pharma have been hit with a suit in California state court by a former company executive alleging she was underpaid compared to her male counterparts and fired while out on medical leave after she raised concerns about equal pay.  Mon, 19 May 2025 21:41:34 +0000 /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2342289?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2342289 A former executive at retired Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner's short-lived pro bono legal services organization lost his bid for $170,000 in back pay he claimed to be owed on Monday when an Indiana federal court found claims to be untimely. Mon, 19 May 2025 19:30:06 +0000 /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2342127?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2342127 A group of anesthesiologists can't stop their governing board from imposing changes to their compensation while they sue for breach of contract, a state business court judge ruled Monday, finding the doctors have other ways of obtaining relief that negate the need for an injunction. Mon, 19 May 2025 18:59:51 +0000 /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2342153?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2342153 Omnicom paid the CEO of one of its agencies less than her male counterparts and fired her under the pretext of a restructuring when she complained, the former executive told a Texas federal court, alleging the marketing and communications firm discriminated against her because she's a woman in her 60s. Mon, 19 May 2025 17:46:18 +0000 /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2342242?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2342242 The U.S. Coast Guard can't retroactively apply a policy to speculate that a class of 200-plus service members who were involuntarily retired through an unlawful process would have been involuntarily retired anyway, a Court of Federal Claims judge said Friday. Mon, 19 May 2025 17:42:48 +0000 /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2341000?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2341000 U.S. v. Lopez marked the U.S. Department of Justice's first labor market conviction at trial as a Nevada federal jury found a home healthcare staffing executive guilty of wage-fixing and wire fraud, signaling that improper agreements risk facing successful criminal prosecution, say attorneys at McGuireWoods. Mon, 19 May 2025 16:41:59 +0000 /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2341894?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2341894 A former associate at a prominent Texas personal injury firm who claims she was fired after she took medical leave for a disabling eye condition and bereavement leave upon her mother's death has brought a disability discrimination suit against the firm and associated entities in federal court in Houston. Mon, 19 May 2025 16:14:04 +0000 /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2341986?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2341986 California firm Hanson Bridgett LLP has brought on a former office managing shareholder for employment firm Littler Mendelson PC — Hanson Bridgett's first attorney in Fresno, where it plans to open its seventh office this year. Mon, 19 May 2025 15:55:21 +0000 /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2342081?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2342081 X, the company formerly known as Twitter, illegally reneged on its promise to keep in place its policy to provide certain severance payments to terminated employees after Elon Musk took over the social media company, a lawsuit filed in Washington federal court said. Mon, 19 May 2025 15:49:50 +0000 /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2342201?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2342201 "Mad Men," the dramatic AMC television series about a 1960s-era advertising agency, offers lessons on a host of employment law issues for today's workforce, such as how to manage pay for superstar employees who go on extended leave and what not to do when it comes to paying men and women equally. Here, to accompany the 10th anniversary this month of the show's final episode, Law360 conducts a compliance audit of the storied Sterling Cooper. Mon, 19 May 2025 15:25:38 +0000 /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2341904?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2341904 A Pepsi distributor told a New York federal court that forcing him to pay arbitration-related costs in a wage case against the company would undermine federal and state wage laws' protective purposes, urging the court to deny the company's request to enforce the terms of the arbitration pact.  Mon, 19 May 2025 15:02:37 +0000 /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2342259?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2342259 Second Circuit judges Monday signaled interest in reviving a pay discrimination case brought by interpreters working for the New York State Unified Court System, as one jurist remarked on "stark" data showing they're "underpaid" and voiced curiosity about what discovery might reveal. Mon, 19 May 2025 13:14:38 +0000 /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2341890?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2341890 Elevance Health's argument that nurses make life-saving decisions that require they exercise discretion over their work is exaggerated, workers told a North Carolina federal court, arguing they are entitled to overtime wages and should continue to proceed as a collective. Fri, 16 May 2025 21:04:10 +0000 /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2341364?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2341364 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins announced Friday the agency plans to review rules requiring public companies to report the earnings of CEOs and other high-level executives, highlighting a possible area of regulatory change for the now Republican-led commission. Fri, 16 May 2025 19:06:18 +0000 /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2341418?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2341418 A New York federal judge on Friday tossed a Turkish restaurant's former server's wage and hour suit in which the worker claimed he was compensated only with tips, after the parties told the court they reached a deal. Fri, 16 May 2025 17:45:38 +0000 /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2341280?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2341280 This week, the Second Circuit will consider an appeal of a federal judge's decision dismissing a discrimination lawsuit brought by New York court interpreters who claim they are systematically paid less than a federal benchmark because they are foreign born.  Here, Law360 looks at this and other cases on the docket in New York. Fri, 16 May 2025 17:45:16 +0000 /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2341332?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2341332 The Second Circuit ruled it will stay out of an appeal challenging a $5 million judgment in a wage case against a New York City restaurant operator, saying that a lower court didn't give a final say when it conditionally dismissed the federal claims. Fri, 16 May 2025 17:42:29 +0000 /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2341568?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2341568 California's worker-friendly employee classification test doesn't violate the dormant commerce and equal protection clauses of the U.S. Constitution, the Ninth Circuit ruled Friday, upholding the lower court denial of a preliminary injunction. Fri, 16 May 2025 14:07:35 +0000 /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2338753?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2338753 In the coming two weeks, attorneys should keep an eye out for oral arguments at the California Supreme Court regarding whether federal law preempts state statutes involving arbitration fees. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in the Golden State. Fri, 16 May 2025 14:02:27 +0000 /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2341240?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2341240 A security company will pay $2.5 million to about 2,000 current and former security officers who claimed they were not paid all wages or for accrued vacation and sick days, after a New York federal judge gave the deal its final OK.