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DOL Charges TPA Embezzled ERISA Plan Assets
March 18, 2024. By Anne Wallace.
Pittsburgh, PA On February 5, the Western District of Pennsylvania issued a Temporary Restraining Order barring RiversEdge Advanced Retirement Systems, LLC and Paul Palguta, the company’s sole owner and president, from accessing the assets of various ERISA retirement plans. The Department of Labor has accused the third-party administrator of misappropriating and misallocating retirement plan assets from seventeen retirement plans, fourteen of which were covered by ERISA. The defendants also are alleged to have transferred assets among the trust accounts for these plans and generated false records to conceal these transfers. The fraudulent information provided to the plans duped them into filing false reports with the DOL, which further frustrated discovery of the embezzlement.
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Glass House Slapped with California Labor Lawsuit
March 11, 2024. By Jane Mundy.
Los Angeles, CA Glass House Brands Inc. was slapped with a proposed class action lawsuit last month, alleging California labor law violations. A former worker accuses the major California marijuana producer of engaging in a systematic pattern of wage violations, including unpaid overtime and unrealistic workloads.
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Former X Corp Workers ask Court not to Dismiss Gender Discrimination Lawsuit
March 7, 2024. By Jane Mundy.
San Francisco, CA Two former X Corp. workers in February 2024 implored a California federal court to go ahead with their proposed class action labor lawsuit alleging gender discrimination. The plaintiffs said X's argument that they failed to allege that X exhibited a pattern of practice of discriminatory behavior should be rejected because they now have enough detail, and evidence indicating Musk’s own biases, to survive the company's motion to dismiss.
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California Employment Lawyer Discusses Wage & Hour Complaints
March 5, 2024. By Jane Mundy.
San Diego, CA If your employer has taken advantage of you, consider speaking to an experienced wage and hour attorney. Nathan Kased’s clients are diverse: from blue collar workers who haven’t been properly paid to managers and sales people misclassified as independent contractors. “Overtime is the biggest issue, and wrongful termination is a close second,” says Kased.
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44 Million Americans Drink PFAS-Contaminated Water, Says New Study
March 4, 2024. By Jane Mundy.
Washington, DC Data released by the Environmental Protection Agency shows that 44 million people in the U.S. have toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS in their drinking water, but that could be just the tip of the iceberg as the full scale of PFAS contamination is likely much more widespread. However, scientists at the Environmental Working Group (EWG) estimated in 2020 that more than 200 million Americans are exposed to forever chemicals in their drinking water.
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California Drywall Company Slapped with Wage & Hour Lawsuit – Again.
March 3, 2024. By Jane Mundy.
Riverside County, CA West Coast Drywall & Co is doing it again: underpaying its piece-rate field employees and instructing them to underreport their hours. The California drywall company settled a lawsuit for the same allegations in 2017, but just two years after the settlement, the company repeated the same California labor law violations. According to this lawsuit filed by Attorney General Rob Bonta, since August 2019 the company has shorted about 7,000 workers by failing to pay wages owed, overtime, and more.
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Stryker Overtime Lawsuit Goes Ahead
February 26, 2024. By Jane Mundy.
Santa Clara, CA Last month Stryker sales associates won a series of procedural victories in their California labor overtime lawsuit. The complaint claims that the giant medical device company failed to pay its sale associates overtime wages, failed to provide meal and rest breaks, and failed to reimburse their business expenses. Stryker classified them as outside sales exempt during training, but plaintiffs allege they were misclassified as overtime-exempt.
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Chicago Hospital Settles Class Action for $55M
February 22, 2024. By Jane Mundy.
Evanston, IL NorthShore University Health System has agreed to pay $55 million to settle a federal consumer class action lawsuit that was filed back in 2007. The settlement ends 16 years of litigation over its merger with another hospital that allegedly allowed NorthShore to illegally monopolize the market and unfairly raise prices on patients.
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PAGA To Face Critical Test on November 2024 Ballot
February 20, 2024. By Anne Wallace.
Sacramento, CA On November 5, 2024, Californians will choose whether to preserve the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) in its present form or replace it with the proposed California Fair Pay and Employer Accountability Act (FPEAA). Since it became law in 2003, PAGA has been an important element of many California labor lawsuits, and is often understood to function as an important deterrent to employer wage theft. Roughly 5,000 PAGA notices are filed annually.
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Walmart Workers ask California Judge to OK $2.25M settlement
February 8, 2024. By Jane Mundy.
Santa Clara, CA Over 1,700 Walmart employees last month asked a California federal judge to approved a revamped $2.25 million unpaid overtime settlement. The proposed California labor class action was revised to base the class members' payouts on total earnings rather than weeks worked.
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- Another Option for Workers Who Cannot Save through an ERISA Retirement Plan By Anne Wallace (Feb-8-24)
- Delta Slammed with Lawsuit over Personal Cellphone Use By Jane Mundy (Feb-5-24)
- Two Popular California Bakeries Slammed with Wage Theft Lawsuits By Jane Mundy (Feb-1-24)
- The Cheesecake Factory Settles California Janitors Wage Theft Lawsuit By Jane Mundy (Jan-29-24)
- Nurses Filed Unpaid Wages Lawsuit Against U.S. Nursing Corp By Jane Mundy (Jan-25-24)
- More Long-Term Part Timers May Now Save Through 401k ERISA Plans By Anne Wallace (Jan-22-24)
- UNITE HERE Dispute with Sky Chefs Back on the Plate By Jane Mundy (Jan-18-24)
- Race Bias Lawsuit: Tesla v. EEOC By Jane Mundy (Jan-13-24)
- Disney’s Gender Wage Complaint Now Class Action By Jane Mundy (Jan-5-24)
- Are Forfeiture Lawsuits the Next Trend for ERISA Litigation in 2024? By Anne Wallace (Jan-3-24)
- Activision Blizzard Agrees to $54 million Gender Discrimination Settlement By Jane Mundy (Dec-26-23)
- California Labor Commissioner’s Office reaches $5.5M Settlement for Wage Theft Lawsuit By Jane Mundy (Dec-19-23)
- Navigating Legal Challenges Faced by People With Cerebral Palsy By LAS Staff Writer (Dec-18-23)
- MetLife to Settle ERISA Lawsuit for $4.5 Million By Anne Wallace (Dec-15-23)
- Barge Worker Not Required to Arbitrate California Wage Claims By Anne Wallace (Dec-13-23)
- DuPont, Corteva and Chemours to Pay State of Ohio $110 million By Jane Mundy (Dec-11-23)
- New California Employment Laws for 2024 By Jane Mundy (Dec-8-23)
- Amazon Retaliates against Women Demanding Fair Pay By Anne Wallace (Dec-7-23)
- Health Care Provider Settles Overtime Lawsuit By Jane Mundy (Dec-4-23)
- Camp Lejeune Litigation on Track, First Settlements Reached, and Unpublished Cancer Study By Jane Mundy (Dec-1-23)
- Lawsuit Links PFAS PFOA Water Contamination to Ulcerative Colitis By Anne Wallace (Nov-27-23)
- Home Healthcare Employer Settles Wage Lawsuit for $700,000 By Anne Wallace (Nov-19-23)
- Amazon Facing California Wage and Hour Proposed Class Action By Jane Mundy (Nov-17-23)
- ESG Rules for ERISA Plan Investing Survive Conservative Challenge By Anne Wallace (Nov-14-23)
- National Collegiate Athletic Association Class Action Lawsuit Going Forward By Jane Mundy (Nov-13-23)
- Yet Another Geico Overtime Lawsuit By Jane Mundy (Nov-7-23)
- $155 Million Overtime Settlement Approved for Prison Supervisors By Jane Mundy (Nov-6-23)
- California Sues Meta Over Youth Marketing By Jane Mundy (Oct-31-23)
- Camp LeJeune Master and Short Form Complaint By Jane Mundy (Oct-30-23)
- Company Secrets: Apple v. Rivos By Jane Mundy (Oct-25-23)
- Customer Service Representatives Stiffed of Pre- and Post-Shift Wages By Anne Wallace (Oct-23-23)
- Exposure to PFAS Doubles Cancer Risk in Women By Anne Wallace (Oct-18-23)
- Construction Laborers Pension Plan Sues Investment Manager for ERISA Breach By Anne Wallace (Oct-17-23)
- Equinox $36 million settlement for California Wage and Hour Lawsuits By Jane Mundy (Oct-16-23)
- Background Actor Files California Labor Law Complaint against HBO By Jane Mundy (Oct-11-23)
- Operators of 14 Subway Restaurants: Sell or Shutdown By Jane Mundy (Oct-4-23)
- Allianz Asset Management Settles ERISA Lawsuit for $7.5 Million By Anne Wallace (Oct-3-23)
- $12.5 Billion PFAS Settlement Revised to Extend 3M Liability By Anne Wallace (Sep-29-23)
- Amazon Unpaid Wages During COVID Screenings Settled By Jane Mundy (Sep-29-23)
- Twitter’s Age Discrimination Lawsuit Proceeds Says California Judge By Jane Mundy (Sep-27-23)