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New York AG James Reaches $16.75M Settlement With DoorDash for Allegedly Misleading Tip Practices

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The New York Attorney General’s (AG) Office announced a $16.75 million settlement with DoorDash, the prominent delivery platform. The settlement relates to claims that DoorDash misled both consumers and delivery workers...more

Cole Schotz

Big News For NJ Employers – NJ AG Files First Complaint Under the Enhanced State Labor and Benefits Laws

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On December 11, 2023, the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office filed its first lawsuit under the State’s enhanced labor laws permitting it to commence actions against employers in Superior Court for misclassifying workers as...more

Cozen O'Connor

State AG Pulse | AGs Clock In On Wages

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State AGs’ authority is by no means limited to their more traditional jurisdictions - consumer protection, privacy, and antitrust - as several recent actions by state AGs in the labor and employment arena clearly demonstrate....more

Fox Rothschild LLP

NY Amends Proposed Construction Industry Wage Law, But Burden On Contractors Remains

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New York appears poised to enact a modified version of legislation that would create potential liability for general contractors when their subcontractors fail to properly pay their employees. As noted in our prior...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

California Employment Roundup: Q1 2021

Independent contractors, meal periods, and PAGA. The first quarter of 2021 yielded some key rulings from the California appellate courts on independent contractor classification, meal-period rounding, and arbitration of...more

Fisher Phillips

October 2020: The Top 11 Labor And Employment Law Stories

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

Genova Burns LLC

The End of the Beginning, or the Beginning of the End?

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On August 10, 2020, a California judge ordered Uber Technologies, Inc. and Lyft Inc., to reclassify their drivers from independent contractors to employees by August 20, 2020. The ruling is the opening salvo in the litigation...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Emergency Stay of TRO Against Ride Share Companies Means Californians Won’t Have to Live Without Services

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As we wrote here just several days ago, Californians were facing the seemingly unimaginable this week– the possibility of living without ride share services for the foreseeable future....more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Do Lawsuits in California and Massachusetts Threaten the Gig Economy as We Know It?

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The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the important role that gig workers play in our economy. At the same time, it also has highlighted the working conditions of gig workers, spurring several states to take action on their...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Ride Share Companies Likely to Appeal California TRO Requiring Them to Treat Drivers as Employees

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We have written here frequently about California’s controversial AB 5 law, which permits companies to treat workers as independent contractors only if they satisfy a stringent “ABC” test....more

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