Employment
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Policymakers, businesses and worker advocates will have to hash out how to handle wage and hour issues stemming from an increasingly mobile workforce and an economy susceptible to worker displacement through technological and environmental change, says Littler Mendelson PC partner Michael Lotito… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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President Joe Biden has tapped Seth Harris, a former Dentons attorney who helped shape California’s controversial independent contractor standard, as a top adviser on labor issues, the White House announced Friday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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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…
Mike LaSusa 