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ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Freight Workers Get Nod For $2M Deal In OT Suit Law360 (January 15, 2021, 2:01 PM EST) A New Jersey federal judge gave her preliminary approval to a proposed $2 million settlement of collective action claims accusing global freight company DSV Air & Sea Inc. of shorting its agents of overtime pay, calling the deal fair and reasonable in an order Thursday. The settlement proposal includes a $535,000 counsel fee and costs award for Schall & Barasch LLC and Nichols Kaster PLLP, as well as a $5,000 service award for named plaintiffs Toni Boardman and Rachel Kelly. The $1.4 million settlement fund will be disbursed in two rounds, with payments for timely claims ranging from $25 to about. ....
Transgender powerlifter JayCee Cooper of Minnesota has filed a discrimination lawsuit against USA Powerlifting and the association s state chapter, alleging its policies preventing transgender women from competition are contrary to state anti-discrimination law and the guidelines of international powerlifting itself. Trans athletes across the country deserve the same rights and protections as everyone else, and we deserve equitable opportunities to compete in the sports we love, Cooper said when announcing the lawsuit Tuesday, January 12. I jumped through every hoop, cleared every hurdle to be able to compete with USA Powerlifting, but was met with a retroactive ban on trans athletes. I m going to fight as hard as I can to ensure that every trans athlete has the opportunity to compete and be recognized with full dignity and humanity. ....
Share this article Share this article PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Nichols Kaster, PLLP and Berger Montague PC announce that Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Inc., GuideWell Mutual Holding Corporation, and Health Options Inc. (collectively, Defendants) have paid $25,000.00 to a former Concurrent Review Nurse for unpaid overtime wages. The nurse filed a lawsuit on September 4, 2020, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Riviere v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Inc., et al., No. 1:20-cv-23709-CMA (S.D. Fla.), alleging that Defendants violated the federal Fair Labor Standards Act ( FLSA ) by misclassifying her and other utilization review nurses as exempt and not paying additional compensation for their overtime hours worked. Defendants denied liability but offered to have judgment entered against them and agreed to pay $25,000.00 to the named plaintiff, plus reasonable attorneys fees and costs. Judg ....
Meatpacking Workers Claim OSHA Should Do More to Protect Them During the COVID-19 Pandemic December 10, 2020 Friends of Farmworkers, also known as Justice at Work, and additional unnamed plaintiffs claimed in a response filed on Tuesday in the Pennsylvania Middle District that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is “unwilling to take action” to protect the workers from the dangers of not taking proper precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic. They claimed that the conditions at Maid-Rite Specialty Foods, a Scranton, Pennsylvania meatpacking plant, were creating a health hazard and that OSHA and the Department of Labor should issue a citation. The plaintiffs said that “this court’s intervention to require OSHA to protect these workers from the risk of COVID-19 remains essential.” ....