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The health care staffing company VDA OC LLC (formerly known as “Advantage On Call LLC”) pled guilty to one count of criminal violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, admitting to “knowingly entering into and engaging in a conspiracy to suppress and eliminate competition for the services of nurses in the District of Nevada and elsewhere,” by agreeing to allocate and “fix the wages” of Clark County nurses.

In 2018, workers employed by a call center sued, alleging that their employer failed to pay them overtime as required by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and state law for the time they spent booting up and turning off their computers after they logged into and out of the company’s time keeping system.

An Oregon magistrate judge has recommended that three Oregon hemp businesses pay the maximum damages allowed by law to seventeen migrant workers who alleged that the businesses – Westcoast Growers LLC, Topshelf Hemp LLC, Fire Hemp LLC, along with the manager of the three companies – underpaid them and provided unsafe and unsanitary housing.

Delivery drivers for Domino’s Pizza stores in Michigan have settled their claims that their employers failed to pay them the minimum wage required by the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) and Michigan’s minimum wage law for nearly $2 million.

Workers have a month to comment on the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) proposed rule to aid in determining who is considered an “independent contractor” under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). A copy of the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) can be reviewed electronically on the DOL’s website.

Five years have passed since the unofficial start of the #MeToo movement. The phrase, first conceived of by activist Tarana Burke, became the name of a movement when actress Alyssa Milano tweeted out a request that people who had experienced sexual assault or harassment use the hashtag.

On September 22, 2022, Carrie Baker filed a complaint against her former employer, the medical marijuana dispensary Green Thumb Industries, Inc., describing a culture of forcing out older female employees and a hostile work environment.

Beginning on January 1, 2023, California’s SB 1162 will require California companies with over 15 employees to include pay scale information in job postings. This means that nearly 200,000 employers will soon have to provide the salary or hourly wage range that they “reasonably expect” to pay for the position.

In February 2021, the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Enforcement Assistance and Marketplace Modernization Act (“Cannabis Act”) went into effect, making it unlawful for employers in the state to refuse employment to job candidates solely because they have received a positive drug test result indicating they have cannabis/marijuana in their body.

Former Burger King employees have renewed hope in their case alleging violations of antitrust law. The Eleventh Circuit recently reversed a decision to dismiss the proposed class action lawsuit alleging that Burger King violated antitrust laws through its noncompete and no-poach agreements.