Au Pairs across the nation recently obtained a huge victory in their fight to gain protection under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) and various other laws. The U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado granted class certification in a case entitled Beltran v. InterExchange, Inc. – a ruling that allows over 91,000 au […]
New York City recently adopted amendments to the New York City Human Rights Law (“NYCHRL”) to extend new and heightened protections to employees requesting reasonable accommodations. Starting October 15, 2018, employers are required to engage in a “cooperative dialogue” with (i) employees with disabilities; (ii) pregnant women; (iii) victims of domestic violence; and (iv) individuals […]
On Monday, January 29, 2018, a group of Los Angeles attorneys unveiled a new app called “Kendr.” Kendr, a third-party cell phone app, provides a new avenue for employees to report workplace problems to their employers. Kendr allows employees in any industry to send messages to their employers – with the option to send a […]
California workers received an early holiday present as the United States Supreme Court denied a petition from Prudential Overall Supply – an employer seeking to force workers from state court and into a forum where workers’ claims must be brought on an individual basis. The petition followed the March 7, 2017 decision of Betancourt v. […]
Faruqi & Faruqi is pleased to announce final approval of the hard-fought settlement in Strong et al. v. Safe Auto Insurance Group, Inc. et al., No. 16-cv-765, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. The class action settlement represents a remarkable 82% recovery of the unpaid overtime and statutory damages […]
Workers receive two big wins in federal court to ensure that their immigration status will not preclude them from raising wage and hour claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act. First, a Federal District Court in Illinois joins New York and other districts across the country to hold that the immigration status of a worker […]
Last week, Angel Hernandez filed a lawsuit, Hernandez v. The Office of the Commissioner of Baseball and Major League Baseball Blue, Inc., Case No. 17-cv-00456, alleging discrimination in how MLB’s promotion and postseason assignment policies are administered for umpires. Despite a remarkable 96.88% accuracy rating on calling balls and strikes in 2016, Hernandez was not […]
With the “Freelance Isn’t Free” Act, NYC Administrative Code § 20-927, et seq., coming into effect this week, New York City workers are better equipped to receive proper payment and protection from prevalent wage theft practices by employers. A skyrocketing number of freelancers, who steadily dominate today’s on-demand service economy, no longer have to worry […]
Workers in New York, Vermont, and Connecticut may now point to a single utterance of a racial slur when claiming that an employer has created a discriminatory hostile work environment in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This is significant as courts within the Second Circuit generally have sought a […]
Employees in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin will be the first workers in the country with the right to sue employers in Federal Court for discriminatory employment practices based on sexual orientation. In Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College, 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 5839, (7th Cir. 2017), the en banc Seventh Circuit ruled that sexual orientation […]
The U.S. District Court, for the Northern District of New York, conditionally certified a collective action brought by Aldi Store Managers alleging the grocery chain misclassified them as exempt employees under the FLSA, in Griffin et al. v. Aldi Inc., No. 5:16-cv-00354. Faruqi & Faruqi, as co-lead counsel, represents the Plaintiffs and a class of […]
New York workers, along with workers in 18 other states, are ringing in 2017 with higher minimum wage laws. These increases are crucial to low wage workers as the federal minimum wage has remained stagnant at $7.25 per hour since 2009. With Andy Puzder, Chief Executive of CKE Restaurants and a vocal critic of efforts […]
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