By Avalon Zoppo | July 22, 2024
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit said Division I student-athletes could fall under the Fair Labor Standards Act if they perform services for a university, under the university's control and in return for implied compensation or benefits.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Andrea M. Kirshenbaum | July 22, 2024
This legal transformation is taking place at the same time that significant government regulations are being challenged, including the U.S. Department of Labor's final rules increasing the salary levels for the so-called "white collar" exemptions and classifying workers as independent contractors under the Fair Labor Standards Act as well as myriad other regulations issued by the Federal Trade Commission and National Labor Relations Board, just to name a few.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Riley Brennan | July 15, 2024
"We disagree with our sister circuit court's comparison of college athletes to prisoners and refuse to equate a prisoner's involuntary servitude, as authorized by the Thirteenth Amendment, to 'the long-standing tradition' of amateurism in college athletics," Restrepo said.
By Riley Brennan | July 9, 2024
"Specifically, Freeland's pay statements demonstrate some discrepancies between pay periods, contrary to his assertion that he was always paid consistently. For instance, Freeland's pay statements show that there were several pay periods when Freeland received nothing in regular pay salary," wrote U.S. District Judge Nancy L. Maldonado for the Northern District of Illinois.
By Cheryl Miller | June 25, 2024
Employers who take "reasonable steps" to comply with California's Labor Code can avoid hefty penalties for violations under the terms of proposed PAGA legislation heading toward the governor's desk.
By Charles Toutant | June 24, 2024
"Like the Wage Payment Law, the company's compensation policies and its March 2020 initiative addressing PPE sales are not a model of clarity," Appellate Division Judge Jack Sabatino wrote.
By Cheryl Miller | June 18, 2024
The deal, announced in broad terms Tuesday, will cap penalties on employers who act quickly to address Labor Code violations while maintaining key tenets of California's labor law enforcement structure.
By Charles Toutant | June 14, 2024
"You need to stay up to the minute on developments," said Mark S. Goldstein, a labor and employment lawyer at Reed Smith. "We have to be able to be flexible and pivot quite quickly, with the patchwork of employment laws at the state and local level."
By Kat Black | June 14, 2024
Women employees represented by Altshuler Berzon and Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, alleged gender-based pay discrimination, biases against women in its performance evaluation system, and maintaining a hostile work environment.
By Cheryl Miller | June 13, 2024
California's courts of appeal have largely upheld a law that requires companies to pay their arbitration bills within 30 days or risk having consumer and employment claims filed against them removed to court.
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