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Good-Faith Defense Narrowly Construed to Wage and Hour Claims
On January 13, 2021, the Supreme Court of New Jersey, in Branch v. Cream-O-Land Dairy , issued an important decision (available here ) clarifying the scope of the so-called "good-faith defense" available to employers sued for violating the minimum wage and overtime compensation requirements of the New Jersey Wage and Hour Law ("NJWHL").
In Branch , the plaintiff, a truck driver, filed a putative class action complaint against his employer, Defendant Cream-O-Land Dairy. The plaintiff alleged he and other class members worked sixty-plus hours per week without being paid one-and-one-half times their hourly rate for hours worked in excess of forty hours per week, in violation of the of the NJWHL's overtime compensation requirements.
Local public-health official gets $160K in pandemic overtime pay | London Free Press
SIMCOE – The top public health official in Southwestern Ontario's Norfolk and Haldimand counties was paid $160,000 in pandemic overtime pay last year, irking one local politician.
Dr. Shanker Nesathurai, Haldimand-Norfolk's medical officer of health, is paid an annual base salary of $240,000. The community's board of health granted him the six-figure "top up" in a recent closed session.
In total, he was paid roughly $400,000 in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic gripped communities across North America.
Sherman's top 3 highest earners were public works employees
Those responsible for maintaining, enhancing and developing local roadways and town-owned properties were Sherman’s highest paid municipal employees of 2020.
With an income of about $104,225, public works director Don Borkowski was the town’s top-earning employee of 2020. As a result of working more than 40 hours some weeks, about $18,300 of his earnings were in overtime pay.
The town’s business administrator, Liz LaVia, said the overtime paid to public works employees is “based on winter storm averages.”
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Case: Wage & Hour/Settlement Agreement (E.D. Cal.)
A federal district court in California approved a settlement agreement between the city of Davis and a group of current and former non-exempt employees who received cash instead of health benefits, having claimed that the city violated the Fair Labor Standards Act by not properly compensating the employees for overtime, in that the cash-in-lieu payments should have been included in the regular rate of pay used for calculating and paying overtime compensation.
Indonesia: Omnibus Law - Government issues regulation on definite period employment agreements,
Vail Resorts replies to lawsuit over alleged violations of labor laws | SummitDaily.com
EAGLE — Vail Resorts on Friday, Feb. 26, made its first response to a proposed class-action lawsuit filed in December on behalf of three former and current employees at its Beaver Creek Resort in Eagle County.
The lawsuit alleges that the company, which operates 34 ski resorts in North America, has repeatedly violated federal labor laws as well as state labor laws in Colorado, California, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Washington, New York, Vermont, Michigan and Utah.
What it takes to earn $70,000 as a union tile setter in New York
Zandra John is a 28-year-old union tile setter from Flatbush, Brooklyn. But her mother always wanted her to become a teacher.
While she loved working with kids and liked the idea of becoming an English or special-needs teacher, her teaching assistant job did not have benefits and she relied on Medicaid and food stamps.
She googled high-paying roles and found herself looking at jobs in construction. She quickly thought of her father.
Happening on Twitter
Happy Monday! All journos at digital publications now covered by Journalists' Published Media Award. That means you… https://t.co/iAAzWpJHn7 strom_m (from ~ 1AU) Sun Feb 28 22:56:42 +0000 2021
@RNBreakfast Although employers would still have to pay overtime if a workers doesn't agree - just as they do now.… https://t.co/T9TD9Pz3UH sallymcmanus (from Melbourne, Victoria) Mon Mar 01 00:48:02 +0000 2021
The federal #minwage is $7.25/hr. It hasn't increased since '09 despite a 13.5% cumulative inflation. If worker pay… https://t.co/EJGBnHnU96 GabrielAcevero (from Montgomery County, MD) Mon Mar 01 16:01:41 +0000 2021
The Limpopo department of health has accused thousands of its health workers of milking the state of nearly R2bn in… https://t.co/oxVyvylWBu SowetanLIVE (from Johannesburg, South Africa) Mon Mar 01 19:20:26 +0000 2021
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