Mike LaSusa

  •  Wage and hour claims are starting to rise as pandemic-related economic pains ease and more people head back to work, spurring advocates to emphasize the importance of making sure workers shorted on pay get what they’re owed under the law… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  •  On the fifth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Tyson Foods Inc. v. Bouaphakeo, wage and hour attorneys told Law360 that the decision allowing workers to use averages and statistics to show similarities among disparate class members is still a resonant force in litigation… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  •  The U.S. Department of Labor has signaled that it’s looking to upend a Trump-era rule narrowing the circumstances in which multiple businesses are liable to the same worker, a move attorneys see as confirmation of President Joe Biden’s determination to swiftly tackle the issue of joint employment liability… Read this piece in its entirety at…

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  •  The Biden administration’s rescinding of Trump-era guidance on when businesses can classify workers as independent contractors shows a dim future for the former president’s proposed worker classification rule, experts told Law360… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  •  The Supreme Court on Monday refused Amazon’s request to review a Ninth Circuit decision that found the company’s delivery drivers can pursue misclassification claims in court because they fit the definition of transportation workers who are exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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