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The high cost of wage theft: Southern California car wash operator pays $202K in back wages, damages to 13 workers after federal investigation - US Department of Labor
Rancho Carwash shortchanged workers, attempted to mask illegal pay practices WEST COVINA, CA – A federal investigation has recovered $202,192 in back wages and liquidated damages for 13 workers at ...
Read moreCall Center Workers Get Boot-Up Time Wage Suit Revived on Appeal - Bloomberg Law
Principal duties require computer, so logging on ‘indispensable’ Reverses lower court grant of summary judgment to employer Las Vegas call center workers won another shot at a wage-and-hour suit...
Read moreLeaders of Influence: Labor & Employment Attorneys 2022 – James H. Berry - Los Angeles Business Journal
JAMES H. BERRY Partner, Los Angeles Office Munck Wilson Mandala James (Jim) H. Berry is a partner practicing in Munck Wilson Mandala’s employment and labor law and litigation groups. He brings to ...
Read moreA Refresher On Minimizing Employers' Whistleblower Risks - Law360
Administration issued a news release claiming that a financial services employer "violated the whistleblower protection provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act," or SOX, by terminating the employment ...
Read moreCase: Wage & Hour/FMLA Retaliation (ED La.) - Bloomberg Law
A former legal assistant is entitled to a trial on her claim that she was terminated in retaliation for using leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act, rather than for violating Galloway, Johns...
Read moreEmilia Jones to Star in ‘Winner’ as Whistleblower Who Exposed Russia’s Interference in 2016 Election - Variety
“CODA” star Emilia Jones will portray whistleblower Reality Winner in “Winner,” a dark-comedy biopic from director Susanna Fogel. Winner, a former U.S. Air Force member and NSA contractor, served ...
Read morePay Transparency Laws Are Expanding Across the Nation. What’s an Employer to Do? - JD Supra
Pay transparency laws that require disclosure of anticipated compensation for open positions (and sometimes for current positions) are increasingly being passed by states and local jurisdictions. ...
Read moreGreenberg Traurig's Lindsay E. Hutner Co-Edits California Employment Law Treatise 2022 - EIN News
Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP Shareholder Lindsay E. Hutner, co-chair of the firm's Employment Litigation & Trials Group, co-edited a publication for the Practising Law Institute (PLI)...
Read moreFalse Claims
Virat Kohli Breaks Silence On Claims He Was Paid Rs 5 Crore To Visit Premanand Maharaj's Ashram: 'False, Ba - News18
News cricket Virat Kohli Breaks Silence On Claims He Was Paid Rs 5 Crore To Visit Premanand Maharaj's Ashram: 'False, Baseless' Virat Kohli, via his spokesperson, has strongly rejected claims made ...