Learn how wage and hour lawsuits work, what employee rights protect workers, and how unpaid overtime and wage claims are ...

The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, applying California law, held that an employment practices liability insurer owed ...

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Wage and hour class and collective action claims remain some of the most common employment claims. In a regulatory environment where the federal Department of Labor (DOL) is operating with diminished ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has held a First Amendment-based “ministerial exception” bars employees acting in a ministerial capacity from bringing certain employment claims against their religious ...

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Kirk A. Pasich, a partner at Dickstein Shapiro, and Keith A. Markel, counsel at the firm, write that despite the explosion of wage-hour class actions in the last few years, and the possible ...

The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries is lifting its income threshold on wage claims a year after it first implemented the limit amid a growing backlog of cases. The agency limited investigations ...

A pattern of ill-advised management decisions reflecting “strategic neglect” and an ongoing lack of resources have fueled the backlog of thousands of worker complaints made to Oregon’s top labor ...