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The Legal Intelligencer

Who Could Qualify as a Statutory Employer Under Pa.'s Workers' Compensation Act?

“A statutory employer is a master who is not a contractual or common law one, but is made one by the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act.”
10 minute read

Law.com

Federal Appeals Court Upholds $119K Fees and Expenses for $12K Verdict

In awarding the full amount of attorney fees and expenses requested by the plaintiff's counsel, Northern District Judge Mark Cohen had noted the the defendants' “obstreperous conduct and the case having gone to trial.”
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Panel Upholds $119K Fees/Expenses for $12K Verdict

In awarding the full amount of attorney fees and expenses requested by the plaintiff's counsel, Northern District Judge Mark Cohen had noted the the defendants' “obstreperous conduct and the case having gone to trial.”
5 minute read

Litigation Daily

Daily Dicta: Boies Schiller Settles Au Pair Class Action for $65M

The settlement doesn't explicitly require au pairs to be paid at least $7.25 an hour. It just stipulates that the defendants must make it clear “that host families and au pairs are free to agree to compensation higher than the legally applicable minimum.”
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

New Year's Resolutions Revisited for the Workers' Compensation Practice

In focusing on suggested resolutions for the practice of workers' compensation, it quickly becomes apparent that some resolutions are timeless. While some of the suggestions below have been addressed in this space in the past, they still pose the same challenges now as then, and bear repeating.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Minding the Gap: 5 Steps Employers Can Take to Address Gender Wage Disparity

No matter how you parse them, the numbers are staggering. On average, females in the U.S. workforce are paid $0.80 for every dollar earned by their male counterparts—this according to the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR).
7 minute read

Daily Report Online

Lapsed Lawyer Faced Legal Fights Over Fantasy Football Before Fraud Indictment

A former lawyer with Turner Broadcasting whose Georgia law license lapsed in 1998 faced civil litigation over failing to pay his employees and over the rights to a fantasy football lottery patent that was later abandoned.
7 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Judge Orders Limits on Firm Website's Description of Class Action Suit

A federal judge in New Jersey has ordered a law firm handling a wage class action involving one of the country's largest food services companies to redact information from its website because, the judge ruled, it was misleading.
3 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

20 Connecticut Denny's Hit With Lawsuit Over Servers' Minimum Wage

An attorney for Denny's restaurant server Valarie Nettleton says the Madison resident is due thousands of dollars for working non-service duties and allegedly not being compensated for it. Nettleton's prospective class action covers about 20 Denny's in the state.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Labor Law Art. 6: Is There a Difference Between 'Deducting' and 'Failing to Pay' Wages?

The belief in a “mere total withholding” exception to Labor Law §193 is entirely misplaced. Courts should not allow employers to violate §193 by reaping the benefit of employees' wages, and should not disregard §198's command that “All employees shall have the right to recover full wages, benefits and wage supplements and liquidated damages[.]”
8 minute read

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