Mike LaSusa
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The nation’s leading intern advocacy group is calling on President Joe Biden’s administration to develop stricter standards around unpaid internships, warning that the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic could exacerbate problems of worker misclassification… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A California appeals court shot down trucking companies’ preemption challenge to the state’s worker classification test, and an appeals court in New York handed app-based drivers a classification win. All over the country, state courts are making waves with rulings that sometimes fly under the radar… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up the question of whether it falls to courts or arbitrators to decide if a dispute should be arbitrated, dealing a fatal blow to a lawsuit alleging Domino’s Pizza suppresses wages with no-poach provisions in franchise agreements… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Workers in half of the United States are seeing minimum wage increases in 2021, meaning employers and employees alike will need to stay abreast of changes that can affect various types of compensation beyond workers’ regular pay, experts told Law360… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Employers are bracing themselves for a wave of policy actions on the wage and hour front after Joe Biden takes office, with the president-elect widely expected to set about dismantling much of President Donald Trump’s employer-friendly legacy around worker pay issues… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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