Minimum Wage, Rest and Meal Break, Employment Litigation

[Webinar] Wage & Hour Minefield: Top Compliance Risks and Litigation Trends for 2025 - February 26th, 10:00 am - 11:00 am PT

CDF Labor Law LLP on 2/12/2025

Wage and hour claims—especially under California’s Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) and class action lawsuits—continue to rise at an alarming rate. With more PAGA notices filed than ever before and wage and hour class...more

Navigating Meal Period Compliance: Key Insights From Recent Washington Court Ruling for Employers

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 10/7/2024

An appellate court in Washington state recently held a hospital liable to pay employees who worked through meal period breaks for their time worked plus compensation for an additional break as a penalty, highlighting...more

Court Rules Outside Salesperson Exemption Turns on Employer Control

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP on 4/4/2023

Until recently, employers had the luxury of interpreting the outside salesperson exemption to minimum wage, overtime and meal and rest period requirements at face value. This is because the definition of an “outside...more

[Webinar] Expert Summit for Employment Attorneys: NEW BONUS SESSION: Expert Testimony in Wage and Hour Litigation - March 2nd,...

DCI Consulting on 2/20/2023

Federal and state wage and hour litigation has been an area of concentration for Industrial/Organizational Psychologists for decades. These cases address alleged discrimination in wage-based employment practices such as...more

FLSA and Wage and Hour Issues for Restaurants

PilieroMazza PLLC on 12/14/2021

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and state or local wage-and-hour statutes establish federal and state minimum wage, overtime pay, and recordkeeping requirements. All restaurants are subject to either the FLSA or state or...more

California Employment Law Notes - November 2019

Proskauer - California Employment Law on 11/11/2019

Court Upholds Whistleblower Verdicts In Favor Of Fired Parking Ticket Hearing Examiners - Hawkins v. City of Los Angeles, 40 Cal. App. 5th 384 (2019) - Todd Hawkins and Hyung Kim were terminated from their jobs as...more

[WEBINAR] Labor & Employment Law: What Changed in 2017

Best Best & Krieger LLP on 6/22/2018

Best Best & Krieger Labor & Employment attorneys discussed new legislation and case law impacting California employers - private and public. What Was Discussed -Legislation passed in 2017 -Wage and hour update ...more

What a Fool Believes? These Non-Fake Employment News Stories

Littler on 3/30/2018

Over the last few months, many employees have sounded the alarm about sexual harassment (not funny). One issued a false alarm about an impending nuclear disaster (also not terribly funny). Sometimes Human Resources...more

March Misclassification Madness: Misclassification Updates in the Gig Economy

Fisher Phillips on 3/16/2018

Many of you likely have filled out your March Madness bracket, and are eagerly watching game after game hoping your bracket doesn’t bust. The gig misclassification game is experiencing a March Madness of its own. The debate...more

California’s Labor & Employment Changes for 2018: Part II - Court Cases Impacting Labor & Employment Law

Best Best & Krieger LLP on 2/21/2018

California courts and Legislature greatly expanded protections for public and private workers in 2017, passing laws and handing down decisions regarding wages, rest periods, harassment, workplace discrimination and free...more

Short Rest Breaks are Compensable Under the FLSA

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 10/26/2017

This month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) requires employers to compensate employees for all rest breaks of twenty minutes or less....more

Employees Entitled To Pay During Short Breaks Per Precedential Third Circuit Decision

Saul Ewing LLP on 10/17/2017

In a recent and precedential decision by the Third Circuit, employers are obligated to pay their employees for breaks of 20 minutes or less under the Fair Labor Standards Act. In an opinion penned by Third Circuit Judge,...more

Sleeping on the Job? New York Court Finds Home Healthcare Employees Entitled to Pay for Each Hour on Overnight Shifts

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 5/2/2017

Seyfarth Synopsis: A New York appeals court held that home healthcare employees who work overnight shifts are entitled to pay for all hours in a client’s home in a 24-hour period—including sleep and meal periods. The...more

New York State Appellate Court Finds 24-Hour Non-Residential Home Care Attendants Must be Paid for Sleep and Meal Periods

Littler on 4/17/2017

As Littler reported in March of 2015, a New York Supreme Court, Kings County Justice found that sleep and meal periods must not be excluded from the hourly wages of a home attendant who does not reside in the home of his or...more

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