A federal appeals court has ruled that an employer must pay an employee for
time spent outside of regular work time at required psychological treatment
sessions and traveling to and from the sessions.
The volume of litigation initiated by groups of employees alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act continued to rise in 2005, according to a report by the law firm Seyfarth Shaw LLP.
UBS AG, a financial services company, has agreed to pay as much as $89 million to settle class-action lawsuits alleging the company misclassified workers as exempt from overtime compensation.
Nearly half of day laborers (49 percent) say that an employer has denied payment of wages for work they completed in the two months prior to a survey by researchers from UCLA, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and New York 's New School University.
More than 200 healthcare workers at 13 Southern California residential care facilities will receive $637,000 in back wages following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division.
More than 1,000 employees of a Corona, California-based plumbing company will receive $900,000 in back wages following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that the Fair Labor Standards Act requires employers to compensate workers for the time they spend walking
to and from the production floor after donning and before doffing required safety
gear.
Electronic Arts says it has agreed to pay $15.6 million to settle a lawsuit alleging
a class of current and former graphic artists were entitled to overtime pay
under California law.
Alaska has passed legislation amending its Wage and Hour Act to make it more
consistent with the overtime provisions the Bush Administration adopted in 2004.
Ten reality-TV writers and editors have filed a lawsuit accusing Fox Broadcasting
Co. and Rocket Science Laboratories of violating California labor law, the Los
Angeles Times reports.
