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Class-Action Lawsuit Filed Against Valley Health Systems

Our law firm is proud to represent Taylor Stubbins in a new class-action lawsuit against Valley Health Systems, alleging violations of pay and overtime laws affecting hourly employees. The lawsuit claims that the hospital’s timekeeping policy, which rounds clock-in times...

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9th Circ. Call Center Wage Case Highlights De Minimis Hurdle

“Call center workers bringing wage and hour claims for off-the-clock work often face employers’ arguments that the time was de minimis, or too insignificant to be compensable, but workers’ attorneys see federal circuit court rulings and other factors as potentially...

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Employee Pay Takeaways From Computer Startup Time Ruling

“In Cadena v. Customer Connexx LLC in October, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that computer startup time is compensable under the Fair Labor Standards Act, where computer usage is an integral and indispensable part of...

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physicians sitting around a cafeteria table working on laptops

Class-Action Lawsuit Filed Against Valley Health Systems

Our law firm is proud to represent Taylor Stubbins in a new class-action lawsuit against Valley Health Systems, alleging violations of pay and overtime laws affecting hourly employees. The lawsuit...

call center specialist

9th Circ. Call Center Wage Case Highlights De Minimis Hurdle

“Call center workers bringing wage and hour claims for off-the-clock work often face employers’ arguments that the time was de minimis, or too insignificant to be compensable, but workers’ attorneys...

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Employee Pay Takeaways From Computer Startup Time Ruling

“In Cadena v. Customer Connexx LLC in October, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that computer startup time is compensable under the Fair Labor Standards Act,...

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Call center workers can seek overtime for booting up computers

Originally Published by Barbara Grzincic Tuesday, October 25th 2022: Original Article can be found here. (Reuters) – Call center employees who communicated with customers exclusively via computer can seek overtime...

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9th Circ. Says Booting Up Computers Is Compensable

“The time a group of call center workers spent booting up their computers is intertwined with their work and therefore compensable under federal law, the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday, overturning...

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September 28, 2021 – DETR Case Update

On September 13, 2021, the Supreme Court of Nevada denied Plaintiffs’ petition for writ of mandamus against DETR, vacated part of the Second Judicial District Court’s Order requiring DETR to...

$13.5M Deal Ends Amazon Wage MDL That Went To High Court

“Law360 (July 23, 2021, 9:15 PM EDT) — A Kentucky federal judge granted final approval Thursday to a $13.5 million settlement resolving multidistrict claims that over 42,000 Amazon.com warehouse...

DETR lawsuit featured in Bloomberg Businessweek unemployment assistance failures

  Mark Thierman and Leah Jones are quoted in the Businessweek article, which notes, DETR continues to deny benefits but has only reported one fraud case worth $3,108 to the...

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Amazon avoids paying workers for long waits and walks

Eleven years ago, an Amazon worker sued the company for screening him at the end of his shifts at its warehouse to make sure he wasn’t smuggling inventory out the...

PAYNE adv DETR Case Update Mar 2021

PAYNE adv DETR Amethyst Payne v State of Nevada ex rel Nevada Department of Employment Training and Rehabilitation, Case No. CV20-0075 (filed Second Judicial District Court of the State of...

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