Penalties, Failure To Pay

Sentence Handed Down in Minnesota’s First Felony Conviction for Criminal Wage Theft

Husch Blackwell LLP on 6/16/2025

Last week, a Hennepin County judge sentenced an employer following a first-of-its-kind criminal conviction for wage theft in Minnesota. Since its enactment in 2019, Minnesota’s Wage Theft Prevention Act has imposed stringent...more

Terminating Employees? Ignoring State And Local Wage Laws Can Cost You

DarrowEverett LLP on 7/16/2024

Terminating employees can be a daunting task. Failing to follow your state or local rules when terminating an employee can make the task exponentially more difficult and expensive. When a business plans on firing or laying...more

PAGA Dischargeable in Bankruptcy?

Fox Rothschild LLP on 8/29/2023

Portions of employer liability in California PAGA actions are dischargeable in bankruptcy under a bankruptcy court decision issued this summer. Specifically, employers’ liability for the 25% share of PAGA penalties to be...more

California Appellate Rulings Give Employers Some Good News On Break Premiums

Hogan Lovells on 12/3/2019

The filing of class actions against California employers for meal and rest break violations remain as prevalent as ever, but the California Courts of Appeal have recently issued two rulings that may help employer-defendants....more

Failure to Voluntarily Self-Report is a "Non-starter" under the FCA

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 8/14/2019

On July 5, 2019, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed dismissal of a qui tam lawsuit against several chemical manufacturers that set forth a unusual theory of liability: the relator alleged that the manufacturers...more

Liquidated damages on work never completed

Hogan Lovells on 4/17/2019

The English Court of Appeal recently considered what should happen when a contractor, through its own fault, never delivers any completed work, despite having contracted to do so by a particular date. In Triple Point...more