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The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has allowed a claim for unpaid overtime alleging improper rounding to move forward. Hourly employees sued St. Luke’s Health System, alleging that the automated timekeeping system…
Unitil Service provides “administrative and professional services on a centralized basis” to Unitil Service subsidiaries “including regulatory, financial, accounting, human resources, engineering, operations, technology, energy management and management services.” More specifically, Unitil…
One way companies cheat their workers out of overtime pay is by refusing to pay for travel time. This issue is commonly seen in overtime lawsuits. Here are some common issues that…
My clients have many questions about unpaid wages and overtime pay in Texas. The purpose of this article is to answer some of the most common ones that my clients have regarding…
Gross Negligence in Trucking Accident Cases – What You Should Know Large trucks are a necessary evil on our roads – they carry the goods we need, but they are also dangerous…
A federal judge in Houston struck a cost-sharing provision in an arbitration clause and limited the time period covered by the clause in ruling on the defendant’s motion to compel arbitration of…
Did you or a loved one undergo a routine medical procedure at Baylor Scott & White Surgicare North Dallas, located 12230 Coit Road and suffer severe, life-threatening medical emergency afterwards? If so,…
A former food service manager has filed a collective action alleging that Aramark misclassified her and others and illegally denied them overtime pay in violation of state and federal overtime laws. According…
PepsiCo Inc., along with several of its subsidiaries and related companies, have been sued numerous times for overtime violations related to its failure to timely pay its employees after its timekeeping system…
Staffing company Labor Source has been sued for alleged overtime violations. Labor Source is a staffing agency with its principal office in Olathe, Kansas, and other main offices in Kansas City, St….
Grocery chain Albertson’s has been sued in federal court in Massachusetts after it allegedly failed to include $2 per hour in “hazard pay” related to the Corona virus in its overtime calculations…
Under Section 541 of the Texas Insurance Code, an insurer breaches its duty of good faith and fair dealing when it denies a claim after its liability has become reasonably clear. Universal…
Understanding the terminology of insurance policies is critical in understanding your legal rights under them. An insurance policy that allows “RCV” or “Replacement Cost Value” typically means the cost to replace the…
Workers are often required by the companies they work for to sign documents containing arbitration provisions. Companies do this because they believe arbitrators are more “defendant friendly,” and thus the arbitration provision…
IF YOU ARE AN EMPLOYEE OR FORMER EMPLOYEE OF A DENTAL PRACTICE AND HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF WIDESPREAD MEDICARE/MEDICAID/TRICARE FRAUD AT THAT PRACTICE – PLEASE READ THIS Dental fraud is a major and…
Thousands of people are injured each year by treadmills. According to the federal agency that monitors consumer injuries, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, there were over 24,400 ER visits due to treadmill…
Fitness equipment company Peloton has come under pressure from regulators and consumer groups to recall its treadmill after numerous injuries were reported. A federal safety agency, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, told…
In Swales v. KLLM Transport Servs, LLC, 985 F.3d 430 (5th Cir. 2021), the 5th Circuit frowned on the long-standing two-stage approach to certification of FLSA overtime collective actions and instead found…
The Fifth Circuit has ruled in favor of a proposed collective class of liftboat workers in their overtime case. A former worker filed suit against All Coast, LLC, alleging that he was…
According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Exxon is being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission after an employee filed a whistleblower complaint regarding how the company valued some…