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November 22, 2024
MSE Partners Speak at ABA LEL Conference
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SIM-Swap Attack Victim Allowed to Sue AT&T under Federal Communications Act, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Rules
Read MoreMarch 29, 2024
Colorado Dispensary Employee Files Class Action Wage Complaint
A former dispensary employee has filed a class action lawsuit against “Yuma Way LLC,” a company that owns and operates nine marijuana dispensaries in the state of Colorado. The lawsuit, filed March 20, 2024, in the Colorado District Court for Denver County, alleges that Yuma Way LLC failed to provide the rest breaks and meal breaks required by Colorado wage and hour laws.
March 27, 2024
New York City amends Earned Safe and Sick Time Act to add private right of action.
Employees in New York City now have the right to sue directly in court if their employers violates the New York City Earned Safe and Sick Time Act (ESSTA). The ESSTA gives employees the right to use leave for the care and treatment of themselves or a family member, and to use leave to seek legal and social services assistances.
March 26, 2024
UFC Settles Fighters’ Class Action Antitrust Lawsuit for $335 Million
Recently, UFC fighters settled a decade long antitrust case against the Ultimate Fighting Championship (“UFC”) and its parent company. The fighters alleged that the UFC, a mixed martial arts organization, has monopoly power to suppress their compensation.
February 29, 2024
Class Action Filed on Behalf of Cannabis Workers Includes Minimum Wage and Overtime Violations
A former employee of cannabis company Glass House Brands Inc. filed a proposed class action against the company, its subsidiaries, and 50 individual defendants on behalf of himself and other current and former employees of the company in the City of Carpinteria, California (Melendez v. Glass House Camarillo Cultivation LLC et al).
February 27, 2024
Virginia Home Care Agency Pays $876,000 in Back Wages and Penalties to Workers Unlawfully Denied Overtime
108 Workers for a Virginia Home Care Agency recovered nearly a million dollars from their employer recently, as a result of the Agency’s failure to pay them for overtime that they had worked. The home care industry is rife with abuse, with employers failing to properly calculate their workers’ overtime hours, or to properly credit them for having performed certain hours of work, among other violations.
February 22, 2024
NLRB Official Rules that Dartmouth Basketball Players Can Vote to Unionize as Employees of the University
In a ruling that will likely affect the rights of college athletes for years to come, a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) official ruled on February 5, 2024, that men’s basketball players at Dartmouth are “employees” of the university eligible to vote and form a union.
February 21, 2024
Lawsuit Filed on Behalf of “Fleet Deckhands” and other “Day Rate Workers,” Allegedly Misclassified as Overtime Exempt Seamen by Food Processing Company ADM
On February 9, 2024, a “Fleet Deckhand” working for Archer-Daniels-Midland Company, a food processing company, filed suit against his employer in the Northern District of Illinois, seeking unpaid overtime, liquidated damages, and attorneys’ fees.
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