Employment
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An Empire State federal judge has given initial approval to an $11 million deal between New York City and the union representing its administrative workers, which aims to resolve claims the city underpaid more than 1,500 nonwhite female employees by thousands of dollars a year… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Coloplast Corp., which makes adult diapers and other incontinence products, will have to pay just over $760,000 for retaliating against a worker after she and others filed a whistleblower suit against the company and some of its distributors, a federal jury in Massachusetts said on Friday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The housing authority of Victoria, Texas, will reinstate a fired immigrant worker, in addition to paying nearly $9,000 and agreeing to special monitoring, to resolve claims that the local agency illegally asked the employee for unnecessary documentation of his legal status, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday… Read this piece in its entirety at…
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An ex-prosecutor who came up with the idea for a television series about a fictionalized U.S. Department of Justice lodged a suit Tuesday in California state court alleging his agents at Creative Artists Agency LLC stole the concept and helped their more powerful clients shop it… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A California federal judge on Thursday greenlit a $20 million deal resolving claims Uber Technologies Inc. misclassified thousands of drivers as independent contractors, after seeking additional information about a number of aspects of the agreement… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 