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news.bloomberglaw.com | Jennifer Bennett
Plaintiff can’t use FAA exemption to avoid arbitrating claims‘Entire basis’ for Amazon relationship is business contractAmazon.com Inc. and related entities can make a worker whose business signed a delivery service partner agreement with the retailer pursue race bias claims outside of court, a federal judge said. The plaintiff, who owns Battle Tested Strategies LLC, argued that he falls under a Federal Arbitration Act exemption for transportation workers.
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news.bloomberglaw.com | Jennifer Bennett
June 6, 2025, 4:56 PM UTC The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission seal at the headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 18, 2020.
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news.bloomberglaw.com | Jennifer Bennett
June 6, 2025, 1:05 PM UTC Customers exit the convenience store of a Sheetz gas station in Breezewood, Pa., on June 16, 2022. Photographer: Nate Smallwood/Bloomberg A Black job seeker asked a federal judge for permission to intervene in an EEOC lawsuit challenging a Sheetz policy’s allegedly discriminatory effects, as the agency abandons disparate impact cases following a Trump order.
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news.bloomberglaw.com | Jennifer Bennett
Two groups of workers who say or its affiliates ran afoul of wage laws won class status from federal judges in New York and California. Knight-Swift and indirect subsidiary Swift Transportation Co. of Arizona LLC face one of the newly certified class actions in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. and Knight Port Services LLC—both also within the Knight-Swift corporate family—face a second class suit in the US District Court for the Central District of California.
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news.bloomberglaw.com | Jennifer Bennett
Parties will trim, remand case after judge questioned removalWorker alleged Tesla owes California class pay, reimbursementsA Tesla Inc. worker agreed to drop more than a dozen wage claims against the Elon Musk-helmed automaker, which in exchange will fight the remaining allegations in state rather than federal court. The worker’s complaint alleged Tesla stiffed a proposed California employee class on pay.
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news.bloomberglaw.com | Jennifer Bennett
June 5, 2025, 1:29 PM UTC A customer exits an Office Depot Inc. store in Los Gatos, California, U.S., on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg An Office Depot worker’s fourth amended complaint finally provided enough detail about his wage-and-hour allegations to get his proposed class action past the dismissal stage, a federal judge in California said.
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news.bloomberglaw.com | Jennifer Bennett
Praise of worker output despite illness ‘betrays no hostility’Dean disagreeing with others on quality not enough for pretextVanderbilt University fought off an associate professor’s attempt to revive a lawsuit alleging the school refused to promote her to full professor because of her disability, a federal appeals court said Wednesday.
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news.bloomberglaw.com | Jennifer Bennett
June 4, 2025, 4:33 PM UTC A Carl's Jr. restaurant in Los Angeles, Calif., on April 1, 2024. Photographer: Eric Thayer/Bloomberg Carl’s Jr. didn’t wait too long to remove row to federal courtChain sufficiently showed there’s at least $8 million at stakeA Carl’s Jr. Restaurants LLC worker who says the burger chain violated California wage-and-hour laws failed to convince a federal judge to send her proposed class action back to state court.
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news.bloombergtax.com | Jennifer Bennett
A Carl’s Jr. Restaurants LLC worker who says the burger chain violated California wage-and-hour laws failed to convince a federal judge to send her proposed class action back to state court. The worker argued that Carl’s Jr. waited too long to remove the case to federal court and didn’t show there’s more than $5 million at stake as the Class Action Fairness Act requires.
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news.bloombergtax.com | Jennifer Bennett
Schlumberger Technology Corp. can ask an appeals court to take an early look at its bid to claim an overtime exemption for salaried workers after a federal judge identified more than a dozen questions for review. The company says it doesn’t owe overtime to former oilfield drilling workers thanks to a Fair Labor Standards Act carveout for highly compensated employees.
