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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Jennifer Bennett
A Black worker who lost her job at a McDonald’s franchisee after wearing a Black Lives Matter face mask during the pandemic can pursue allegations of race discrimination, retaliation, and a hostile work environment. The worker, who also says managers failed to protect her from racial slurs, sufficiently alleged Cullen Management LLC treated Black employees worse than others and fired her because of her race, the US District Court for the Western District of Virginia said.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Jennifer Bennett
A Black worker who lost her job at a McDonald’s franchisee after wearing a Black Lives Matter face mask during the pandemic can pursue allegations of race discrimination, retaliation, and a hostile work environment. The worker, who also says managers failed to protect her from racial slurs, sufficiently alleged Cullen Management LLC treated Black employees worse than others and fired her because of her race, the US District Court for the Western District of Virginia said.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Jennifer Bennett
A national trucker organization seeking to block a California law that makes it harder to classify the group’s members as independent contractors faced tough questions during arguments before a Ninth Circuit panel Wednesday. The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association Inc. said the statute, known as AB 5, prohibits owner-operators who lease their trucks to motor carriers from operating as independent contractors within California.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Jennifer Bennett
Workers who say a group of petroleum companies stiffed them on pay and breaks asked a judge to give their $7.2 million settlement initial approval.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Jennifer Bennett
US Law WeekEmailApril 8, 2025, 4:37 PM UTCWorkers who say a group of petroleum companies stiffed them on pay and breaks asked a judge to give their $7.2 million settlement initial approval.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Jennifer Bennett
A former professor and program director can try again to show New York University College of Dentistry retaliated against him for complaining about bias, but a federal appeals court declined to revive other claims Wednesday.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Jennifer Bennett
Two Amazon.com Inc. subsidiaries and one of their delivery service partners fought off a lawsuit alleging the companies jointly employed California workers and ran afoul of wage-and-hour requirements under state law. The Rejoice Delivers LLC worker who filed the would-be class action against it, Amazon Logistics Inc., and Amazon.com Services LLC didn’t provide enough detail to back up the claims, the US District Court for the Northern District of California said.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Jennifer Bennett
Diakon Logistics and delivery drivers who say it misclassified them as independent contractors each nabbed partial victories in a wage-and-hour dispute that’s headed for trial. The workers demonstrated that they’re the delivery and installation firm’s employees under one state wage law, and that Illinois statute applies to their work both within and outside the state, the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois said.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Jennifer Bennett
Diakon Logistics and delivery drivers who say it misclassified them as independent contractors each nabbed partial victories in a wage-and-hour dispute that’s headed for trial. The workers demonstrated that they’re the delivery and installation firm’s employees under one state wage law, and that Illinois statute applies to their work both within and outside the state, the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois said.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Jennifer Bennett
is free of a lawsuit alleging a company policy of disciplining warehouse workers in the bottom 5% of productivity scores has a disparate impact on women. The would-be class action said the policy disproportionately disciplines women because they tend to be shorter than men and must more often spend time grabbing stepladders when retrieving products from high shelves.
