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New Wage Settlement: Worker Misclassification Leads to $243K Payout

A D.C. hospitality business will pay more than $243,000 after an investigation found worker misclassification and other wage and hour violations affecting more than 270 workers.  T...

Employee misclassification is becoming a bigger risk for growing SMBs

Employee classification mistakes are creating costly payroll and compliance risks for SMBs.

Costly Employee Classification Mistakes California Employers Make and How to Avoid Them

California employers should continue applying the state’s stricter worker classification and overtime exemption standards despite recent and pending federal wage and hour changes....

Google Maps Drivers' Wage and Hour Case Shows Evolving Misclassification Claims

The case stems from Cognizant's contract with Google to update Google Maps. Cognizant, in turn, relies on staffing company Aceolutions, also a defendant in the case, to get drivers...

After 19 Years of Litigation(!) And a $43 Million Award, Judgment in Escrow Officer Wage Case Is Largely Reversed

Cortina v. North Am. Title Co., 2026 WL 1506576 (Cal. Ct. App. 2026) In this 137-page opinion, which the Court of Appeal noted involves an even more “rare and beastly case” than Du...

Independent Contractor or Employee: Classification in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations

Confused about how to determine if a DAO contributor is an employee or 1099 contractor? ... Read more

Construction Firm Owner Charged With Workers’ Compensation Fraud

A Massachusetts construction firm owner fraudulently misclassified subcontractors as siding workers or painters when they were performing riskier roofing work in order to avoid pay...

Minor Errors in German Mass Layoff Notices Do Not Automatically Invalidate Terminations

New Jersey Settles Trucker Misclassification Claims for $2.7 Million

The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) has reached a $2.7 million settlement with STG Logistics, Inc. and subsidiaries resolving allegations that the...

Illinois AG Recovers Unpaid Wages for Misclassified Temporary Workers

GigSmart Inc. has entered into a settlement with the office of Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, under which it will pay around $95,000 to resolve allegations that it misclass...

Payroll Scheme to Avoid Overtime Backfires: $457K Payout

What happens when an employee works 50 hours per week, but payroll makes it look like 25 hours for each of two companies to avoid overtime premiums? That was the setup allegedly de...

STG drayage drivers to get cash in NJ misclassification case

STG Logistics drivers in New Jersey will be able to receive a payout for misclassification. The post STG drayage drivers to get cash in NJ misclassification case appeared first on...

5th Circuit applies longstanding discrimination test even as judges call it ‘wrong’

A majority of the court appeared open to reconsidering the U.S. Supreme Court’s McDonnell Douglas framework, the soundness of which has come into question in recent years.

STG Logistics to pay $2.8M in NJ driver misclassification case

STG Logistics will pay at least $2.8 million to settle claims it misclassified hundreds of truck drivers as contractors. The post STG Logistics to pay $2.8M in NJ driver misclassif...

Wage-Hour Class Action Certification: Overby Reinforces That Specifics, Not High-Level Allegations, Matter

Fringe Benefit, Payroll Reporting Violations Cost Contractor $67K in Back Wages

An investigation into a public works project in Lake County turned into a costly lesson on certified payroll compliance. The Illinois Department of Labor’s (IDOL) Wage Transparency...

How Does a Clawback Clause Affect Overtime Calculations? What Payroll Should Know

Not every sign-on bonus belongs in the overtime calculation – and a recent federal case out of Virginia shows why. A fired employee filed a lawsuit against his former employer, cla...

BAG: Nicht jeder Fehler in der Massenentlassungsanzeige kippt die Kündigung

Die Massenentlassungsanzeige ist seit Jahren ein arbeitsrechtliches Minenfeld. Ausgangspunkt ist die Massenentlassungsrichtlinie 98/59/EG (MERL). Erst im April dieses Jahres hatte...

Red Flags for Fraud: FinCEN Issues Advisory on Detecting Unlawful Employment Practices

Meta Employees’ Lawsuit Shows That if AI Fires You, Proving it Is the Hard Part

A novel lawsuit claiming that Meta Platforms relied on discriminatory AI tools to select employees for layoffs highlights the problems workers face in suing employers over the new...