Employer Liability Issues, Attorney's Fees, Prevailing Party

Employer Impact Guide to the Supreme Court’s 2024-2025 Term: 12 Cases That Reshaped Your Workplace, Industry, or Litigation...

Fisher Phillips on 8/29/2025

As the Supreme Court prepares for its next term to begin October 6, let’s look back on all the SCOTUS cases from the past year that impacted your workplace, industry, and litigation exposure. Here’s a quick guide to 12 times...more

5 SCOTUS Cases for Employers to Track as 2024/2025 Term Begins

Fisher Phillips on 9/26/2024

The Supreme Court will begin a new term on October 7, and we’re watching several cases that will likely have a big impact on the workplace. The Justices will grapple with wage and hour issues, coverage under the Americans...more

Litigant’s Attorney Is Entitled To Fees As “Prevailing Party” In UTSA Case

Proskauer - California Employment Law on 10/14/2020

Aerotek, Inc. v. The Johnson Group Staffing Co., 2020 WL 5525180 (Cal. Ct. App. 2020) - The law firm Porter Scott, P.C., defended its client The Johnson Group Staffing (TJG) through two rounds of litigation against claims...more

Lessons for Employers from Extended Litigation

Dentons on 1/16/2020

Lawyers love to follow the intricacies of litigation - we read the court decisions and follow matters through trials like some follow the latest happenings in their favorite TV drama. CRST Van Expedited v. EEOC - From...more

“Catalyst” Test Applicable To Awarding Attorney’s Fees For State Wage And Hour Claims, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Holds

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 3/13/2019

Rejecting the federal standard for determining whether a party has “prevailed” on his or her claim under the Massachusetts Wage Act, Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 149, §§ 148 & 150, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has held...more

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court OK’s Attorneys’ Fees for Wage Act Settlements

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace on 2/23/2019

As has been long anticipated, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court recently gave a green light to plaintiffs’ attorneys seeking a fee award under the Commonwealth’s Payment of Wages Act, even where an action ends in...more

Two Recent FLSA Decisions Bring Good News to Employers

Mintz - Employment Viewpoints on 1/16/2019

As 2018 came to a close, a pair of federal court decisions provide much needed guidance on two thorny wage and hour issues that are being increasingly litigated nationwide under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). In one...more

Key California Employment Law Cases: August 2018

Payne & Fears on 10/19/2018

This month’s key employment law cases address pre-employment physicals, appeals from California Labor Commissioner awards, and background checks. EEOC v. BNSF Ry. Co., 902 F.3d 916 (9th Cir. 2018)...more

Trial Court Properly Denied Attorneys’ Fees To Plaintiff Who Proved His Termination Was Substantially Motivated By His...

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 1/22/2018

In Bustos v. Global P.E.T., Inc., (E065869, Cal. Ct. App. January 16, 2018), Plaintiff William Bustos and a number of his co-workers were terminated by Global in an economic layoff. Bustos sued Global alleging his...more

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