A California appellate court has upheld the decision of a trial court to deny Uber’s petition to compel arbitration in a case involving the worker misclassification of a former Uber Eats driver. According to the court, an agreement that the driver signed waiving the right to bring a claim under California's Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA), is unenforceable, since such claims belong to the state, not to the Read More

Maryland has become the tenth state, in addition to the District of Columbia, to enact a paid family and medical leave insurance program. The Maryland Department of Labor must establish regulations for implementing the Time to Care Act of 2022, no later than June 1, 2023. After the state legislature passed the bill to create this program, Governor Larry Hogan vetoed it. The state legislature voted to override Read More

A federal district court has vacated the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) withdrawal of regulations outlining when a worker is an independent contractor under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). In Coalition for Workforce Innovation v. Walsh, No. 1:21-cv-00130-MAC (E.D. Tex. Mar. 14, 2022), the court concluded that the DOL’s initial delay and later withdrawal of the regulations did not meet federal administrative Read More

A judge for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington has granted Amazon.com, Inc.’s motion to stay a lawsuit alleging that the company wrongfully withheld tips from contract delivery drivers. The court determined that a decision in Southwest Airlines Co. v. Saxon, a pending case before the U.S. Supreme Court concerning exemptions under the Federal Arbitration Act, impacts a serious legal Read More

A Georgia federal judge granted summary judgment in favor of Tift Regional Medical Center in a suit involving claims of racial discrimination and retaliation in firing a former employee. Brian Edwards alleged that Tift had fired him after complaining about racially insensitive remarks by a supervisor. The court found that Edwards could not rebut the hospital’s claim that he was fired for a nondiscriminatory reason, Read More

N3 LLC, a subsidiary of Accenture LLP, has reached a settlement with a group of inside sales employees to resolve allegations that it unlawfully withheld overtime pay from them. The parties reported to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia that they were working on a written settlement, but they did not disclose the settlement terms to the court. Austin, the named plaintiff, and other Read More

The U.S. Soccer Federation and the U.S. National Women’s National Team Players Association failed to meet a March 31 deadline to reach a new collective bargaining agreement. The parties need to reach a new agreement that equalizes pay between female and male soccer players, to finalize a $24 million equal pay settlement, in order to end a long-running gender discrimination claim. March 31 was the expiration date of Read More

A Hong-Kong based company has filed a motion to dismiss an employment discrimination lawsuit based on unequal pay. Turkish employees allege that Imperial Pacific Casino paid them less than their Taiwanese counterparts under company policies. In Genc et al. v. Imperial Pacific International (CNMI) LLC et al., case number 1:22-cv-00002, which is pending before the U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Read More

A federal judge has denied a motion for a preliminary injunction by the Roosevelt Hotel, which sought to avoid paying its laid-off workers while challenging a law requiring them to do so. The ruling came in the case of RHC Operating LLC v. City Of New York et al., case number 1:21-cv-09322, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The judge ruled that New York City can continue to enforce the law Read More

Landmark verdicts and settlements already have occurred in widespread opioid litigation against big pharmaceutical companies. That trend continues as those companies brace for yet another massive wave of trials in upcoming weeks. Calendars from March to May in some of the country’s most significant courts are packed with six opioid trials reminiscent of the first American opioid trials that began almost three years Read More