The New York Jets have agreed to pay nearly $324,000 to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by cheerleaders who claimed that they were cheated out of wages and forced to cover work-related expenses. The 52 women involved in the suit said they were paid $150 per game and issued cheerleader uniforms, but weren’t paid for practices and other work, said Patricia Pierce, an attorney for the …
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On Tuesday, Lyft agreed to settle a proposed class-action lawsuit with its drivers in California. Lyft agreed to pay $12.25 million to its drivers in the settlement, which is subject to the approval of a San Francisco federal judge. Both Lyft and its ride-hailing rival Uber have faced separate lawsuits from drivers in San Francisco federal court.
Lyft also can’t drop drivers whenever it wants. The company can only terminate someone based on a number of predetermined reasons, such as low passenger ratings. Even then, the driver will be given the chance to air their side of the story.
On Tuesday, Lyft agreed to settle a proposed class-action lawsuit with its drivers in California. Lyft agreed to pay $12.25 million to its drivers in the settlement, which is subject to the approval of a San Francisco federal judge. Both Lyft and its ride-hailing rival Uber have faced separate lawsuits from drivers in San Francisco federal court.
Crisis-struck residents of Flint, Mich. are taking the contamination of their city’s water to the courts. A federal suit announced Wednesday alleging that officials are still violating a federal law designed to protect the city’s drinking water is one of at least four separate attempts backed by Flint citizens to get legal recourse for the ongoing crisis. Here, what each major legal challenge …
The Supreme Court on Wednesday handed a defeat to businesses, ruling that they cannot stop a class-action lawsuit by offering to pay the full amount sought by the original plaintiff. In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court sided against advertising firm Campbell Ewald that was trying to avoid a class-action lawsuit. ADVERTISEMENT “An unaccepted settlement offer or offer of judgment does not moot a …
Flint Residents Call For End To Outrageous Bills For Water They Can’t Even Use by Bryce Covert Jan 28, 2016 12:05 pm CREDIT: AP Photo/Carlos Osorio Melissa Mays, a Flint resident who is demanding an end to bills for contaminated water Flint residents — who have been struggling with elevated levels of lead in their drinking water ever since the city switched its water source from Detroit to the …
Bill Parry started getting calls from his clients immediately — and they were furious. At 4:00 p.m. on Dec. 1, General Electric issued a statement saying it was pulling about $5 billion in preferred stock from the market and exchanging it for shares with new terms. The securities had plummeted, erasing about $500 million in market value and enraging investors.
“The right action is, if you have a problem that happened from people that you were responsible for, you go solve it. You don’t walk away from it. You take it head-on,” he says.
In the ongoing legal battles over worker misclassification in the on-demand economy, tech companies are taking different approaches to make the lawsuits go away. They can fight, as Uber is currently doing in San Francisco’s federal court; the case is expected to go to trial this year. They can give in, as many smaller delivery companies have done, reclassifying their workers as employees …