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SEIU Local 73 members ask judge to order national union to order local elections, restore local control
Members of an influential local union are asking a federal judge to restore local control a year after the national union appointed a trustee to bring order amid a messy leadership spat. -
Illinois employers to face shifting regulatory burdens in 2018
As 2018 looms, employers in Illinois are bracing for another wave of employment and labor regulations on the local, state and federal levels. -
Illinois Department of Labor accuses employer of failing to properly compensate employees
A state agency is suing The Ude Group Holding Company and Domonique Johnson for alleged unpaid wages, violation of applicable minimum wage law and violation of workers' compensation acts. -
Limo company owners' failure to understand personal liability for judgment in OT case dooms appeal
Former business partners sued for failing to pay their employees overtime lost their appeal of the judgment against them, when a federal appeals court found the men had spent years ignoring both the litigation and the judgment. -
Studio OMD Inc., individual accused of failing to pay wages
The state of Illinois is suing Studio OMD Inc. and Chukwudifu "Chuks" Okwuje for alleged breach of contract and unpaid wages. -
Judge: IL law compels employers to give day off each week, but workers who want OT mustn't take it
A Chicago federal judge has crumbled a suit by a Chicago cookie company, which wanted to force its employees to take 24 hours off every seven days in lieu of working voluntary overtime, saying state law requires companies give their workers the option to take one day off each week, but does not force workers to take a day off, if their contract otherwise allows them to work seven consecutive days or more, and they want the overtime. -
Lids store managers say parent companies owe them for unpaid overtime: Class action
A group of Lids store managers have filed a federal class action complaint against the hat retailer’s parent companies, alleging they were not properly compensated for overtime work. -
Judge: 'Ride time' to worksites should be counted in OT calculations, even if workers not working
A Chicago federal judge has determined employers can be forced under the law to pay workers overtime for certain “ride time” spent traveling to a worksite, agreeing with a group of workers for a party tent and equipment rental company who argued their employer could have been required to pay them overtime under federal and Illinois wage laws. -
Family Construction and Cleaning accused of not obeying state order
The Illinois Department of Labor is suing Family Construction and Cleaning Inc. and Ion (a/k/a Jon) Vanciu, alleging breach of contract, unpaid wages, and violation of workers compensation acts. -
Law firm releases report noting trends in workplace class-action litigation
While wage-and-hour litigation, and related regulatory actions were on the rise in 2016, the monetary value of top employment-related class action settlements were on the decline last year, among other trends identified in the latest Workplace Class Action Litigation Report issued by the Seyfarth Shaw firm. -
New laws at state, local level bring changes in 2017 employers should be mindful of, labor attorney says
As the calendar flips to a new year, a host of new laws in Illinois and elsewhere will take effect, including a number of which employers should particularly be mindful. -
Immigrant carnival workers sue North American Midway Entertainment, say they've been shorted OT pay
A carnival operator which has billed itself as “the world’s largest traveling outdoor amusement park,” providing carnival services to 10 of the 50 largest fairs in North America, including the Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky state fairs, is facing a class action wage complaint from employees who allege violations of laws in five states. -
Judge's temporary order on overtime rule could hint at its fate, attorney says
Days before the rule was set to take effect, a federal judge in Texas blocked a U.S. Department of Labor rule that would have extended overtime pay to upwards of 4 million salaried workers. The Department of Labor has appealed. The decisions in the meantime could produce confusion, a Chicago employment lawyer said. -
Texas federal judge slaps hold on Obama administration's new Overtime Rule
A Texas federal judge granted a nationwide preliminary injunction against the U.S. Department of Labor’s “unlawful” new Overtime Rule. -
Illinois employers should prepare now to track paid leave benefits under new law, attorney says
Illinois employers should prepare for the state's new Employee Sick Leave Act, which allows employees to use paid personal sick leave benefits to take care of family members, a labor and employment attorney said in a recent interview. -
7th Circuit: Small added tasks don't mean tipped servers doing other jobs, entitled to more pay
A suburban Chicago chain of pancake houses has stacked another win in its ongoing legal fight with former servers who claimed they weren’t paid enough for work they did in addition to waiting tables at the restaurants. -
FLSA lawsuit activity breaks record, rises again in 2015, up 8 percent vs 2014
2015 proved to be a record-breaking year for the number of lawsuits filed in federal court under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), and 2016 will probably break that record, a Seyfarth Shaw attorney says. -
IL Atty Gen: Chinese employment agencies, buffets, exploited 'vulnerable, desperately poor' Latino workers
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has served a federal civil rights action against companies run by Chinese nationals who advertise they can provide “honest” and “sincere” Mexicans to work in Chinese buffet restaurants across the Midwest, saying the job placement agencies and the restaurant owners profited from placing “vulnerable and desperately poor Latino workers” in jobs at which they were routinely exploited, discriminated against, underpaid and housed in dingy conditions in return for -
Bus drivers' federal class action says First Student has shorted them wages, overtime
A group of 65 school bus drivers has filed a class action lawsuit against bus company First Student on behalf of potentially thousands of other bus drivers, claiming the company has made a habit of underpaying its drivers. Attorneys Karl W. Roth and William P. Foley of the Roth Law Group, of Chicago, filed the action Tuesday, Oct. 13, in federal court in Chicago. -
FLSA Rising: Ever-shifting wage, hour standards promise to keep employers, lawyers struggling to keep up with law
The increase of wage and hour lawsuits being filed in Chicago federal courts in the last 25 years is reflective of a national trend. And with two new notifications from the U.S. Department of Labor regarding revised Fair Labor Standards Act regulations and an updated interpretation of worker classification, area litigators not only expect to see FLSA suits on the rise again, but to see businesses overhaul their structures.