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Two years ago, Bloomberg LP settled a $3 million lawsuit that accused the company of failing to pay its workers overtime wages. Now, Bloomberg is once again under fire for illegal payment practices. Heidi Diaz, a former human resources employee at Bloomberg, is the lead plaintiff in the class action, which seeks to include all Bloomberg employees who were employed after February 2020. 

Previous Overtime Violations: History Repeats Itself

In its 2020 case involving wage-and-hour claims, a group of New York call

In October 2019, a former Philadelphia-area regional director of Starbucks, Shannon Phillips, filed a race bias suit against the coffee giant. Following the wrongful arrest of two Black men at a Center Cinty store in 2018, Phillips, a white woman, alleged that her subsequent termination amounted to “reverse discrimination.” According to an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Phillips argued that Starbucks sought to “punish white employees who had not been involved in the arrests, but who worked in and around

In response to widespread criticism of the Ban on Non-Compete Agreements Amendment Act of 2020, which sought to impose a near-total ban on non-competes, the Council of the District of Columbia has amended the law and postponed its enforcement date. The revised ban, named the Non-Compete Clarification Amendment Act of 2022, will be enforced starting October 1, 2022.

The Ban on Non-Compete Agreements Amendment Act of 2020

The District of Columbia Council had passed the original ban in a 12-0 vote on

Nine former workers at Fox Sports have sued the network for using COVID as a front for age discrimination. In the 21-page complaint, the workers claim that they were told to stay at home due to pandemic-related office closures and then left in limbo for over a year, not knowing whether their jobs were secure.

Older Workers Sent Home and Shunned

According to a Law360 article, the nine ex-workers range from 49 to 80 years old and had worked in Fox’s graphic

During its annual shareholder meeting, Tesla shut down several investor proposals aimed at improving an allegedly “toxic” work culture grounded in discrimination and harassment. Preliminary results from the meeting indicate that of the eight investor resolutions on the agenda, only one will survive opposition from Tesla. Three of the aborted resolutions sought to reduce racial and gender discrimination in the workplace while making Tesla’s board of directors more diverse. The sole surviving resolution is less radical; it will enable large

Honda worker, Brandon Whatley, has filed a class action lawsuit against the automaker for unpaid overtime wages. Whatley claims that he did not receive overtime compensation after a cyberattack on workforce management company, Kronos, impacted Honda’s timekeeping system. According to an article on Law360, Whatley seeks to represent all former and current nonexempt employees in Alabama who worked at the company between the occurrence of the cyberattack on December 11 to the time Honda resumed normal timekeeping using Kronos software. 

Allegations

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating whether the PGA Tour engaged in anticompetitive behavior against its Saudi-backed competitor, the LIV Golf Invitational Series, according to the Wall Street Journal. Amid a battle that has divided professional golf, the tour has suspended 17 players who competed in the LIV Golf tournament. In a June memo to its members, the tour said that while players may defect to the LIV Golf series “for their own financial-based reasons,” they cannot expect the

Long branded as a family-friendly restaurant, Red Robin recently confronted accusations of not being equally worker-friendly. On July 5, the burger chain agreed to pay a $2.95 million settlement to a class of managers whose rightful overtime wages were allegedly withheld. 

Origins of Unpaid Overtime Claims 

Red Robin kitchen manager Eric Outlaw originally filed suit in 2018 accusing his employer of violating the Federal Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and New York labor law. According to Law360, the class now includes nearly 500

Following the Supreme Court’s recent decision to overrule Roe v. Wade, which established the constitutional right to abortion, a growing number of companies have pledged to cover travel costs for employees seeking abortions out of state. To this end, major companies from various industries are expanding their health insurance coverage and offering abortion travel reimbursements. According to the New York Times, the first companies to act did so in response to the draft of the Court decision leaked in early

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