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Littler Expands San Diego Office with Addition of Two Skilled Employment Attorneys - Littler Mendelson PC
SAN DIEGO (September 27, 2022) – Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, has added Merrili Escue as a shareholder and Nancy Kawano as senior counse...
Read moreFirefly Music Festival Bartenders File Suit Over Stolen Tips - Law360
Three staffing companies for the annual Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, forced bartenders to share their tips with managers and non-tipped employees and failed to explain the wages they...
Read moreOverbroad Speech Restriction in Dispute Between Two #AppleToo Whistleblowers Overturned - Reason
N.Y. Post (Theo Wayt) wrote in April about the underlying dispute: A pair of ex-Apple employees who made headlines last year for leading a whistleblower movement against the company have since b...
Read moreHome Health Aides Beat Bid to Toss Overtime Allegations - Bloomberg Law
Home health aides may move forward with their wage-and-hour suit after a federal judge in Connecticut ruled a valid Labor Department rule blocked their employer from invoking a “live-in” exemptio...
Read moreEnergy Workers Say Co. Skimped On OT For 15-Hour Days - Law360
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Read moreLetter: An unfair pay raise for home care workers - The Daily Freeman
Dear Editor, On October 1st, thousands of home care workers under state Medicaid are due to receive a $2 an hour raise. They will then earn $17 an hour downstate, and $15.20 an hour elsewhere. Bu...
Read moreFlorida business settles landmark FCA whistleblower case involving PPP loan - Compliance Week
A Florida-based investment fund will pay approximately $22,000 as part of a settlement resolving the first False Claims Act (FCA) whistleblower case involving a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) ...
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ASIC Blocks Yepbit Websites, Rejects False Fund-Freeze Claim - Bitcoin World
Australia’s corporate regulator, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), has blocked websites linked to the digital asset platform Yepbit following investor complaints about d...