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Cigna Ordered To Reform Pension Plan In Long-Running Suit

A Connecticut federal judge on Thursday ordered Cigna Corp. to make changes in its retirement plan and also denied the health care company's bid to decertify a class of roughly 25,000 workers in a long-running lawsuit accusing it of shortchanging employee

Published Fri, Dec 21 2012 4:16 PM by Law360: Employment

CalPERS Told To Cool Its Heels In San Bernardino Bankruptcy

A California bankruptcy judge ruled Friday that the California Public Employees Retirement System can't immediately collect overdue pension payments from San Bernardino, saying the powerful pension fund must wait for the financially stressed city's bankruptcy

Published Fri, Dec 21 2012 3:33 PM by Law360: Employment

4th Circ. Strikes DOL Changes To Guest Worker Program

The Fourth Circuit on Friday vacated the U.S. Department of Labor's 2009 decision to suspend regulations for the "guest worker" program — a move that would have required agricultural employers to pay temporary workers higher wages — saying the agency

Published Fri, Dec 21 2012 2:53 PM by Law360: Employment

Concepcion Doesn't Doom Limo Driver Class, Calif. Court Told

A limo driver on Thursday asked California's highest court to overturn a decision to send his proposed wage-and-hour class action to individual arbitration, arguing a California precedent that discourages the enforcement of class action waivers in employment

Published Fri, Dec 21 2012 2:52 PM by Law360: Employment

Fifth Third Seeks High Court Review Of ERISA Action

Fifth Third Bancorp has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the Sixth Circuit's revival of a proposed class action claiming the company's retirement plan lost tens of millions of dollars investing in its own stock in 2007 despite its risks as

Published Fri, Dec 21 2012 2:47 PM by Law360: Employment

PG&E Can Charge Customers $299M For Pipeline Safety: CPUC

The California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday cleared the way for Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to charge customers $299.2 million to help fund a three-year pipeline safety plan, in addition to adopting new whistleblower posting requirements for

Published Fri, Dec 21 2012 2:40 PM by Law360: Employment

Brinker Doesn't Kill Truckers' Meal, Rest Break Class Action

A California federal judge on Tuesday denied JB Hunt Transport Inc.’s motion to decertify a class of truck drivers who accused the company of stiffing them on meal and rest breaks, saying the class still meets minimum standards after the seminal Brinker

Published Fri, Dec 21 2012 2:28 PM by Law360: Employment

Ex-DHL Drivers Lose Class Cert. Bid In WARN Act Suit

An Alabama federal judge declined Friday to certify a putative class of former DHL Express employees suing the company for laying them off without sufficient notice, saying proposed class definition was too broad and vague to stand up in court.

Published Fri, Dec 21 2012 2:22 PM by Law360: Employment

Criminal Check Co. Can't Appeal Ruling Upholding FCRA

A Pennsylvania federal court judge on Friday refused to certify an appeal of a November decision that found the Fair Credit Reporting Act did not violate the First Amendment and kept alive a putative class action against a consumer reporting agency.

Published Fri, Dec 21 2012 2:15 PM by Law360: Employment

Nordstrom Boots FLSA Claims In Wage-And-Hour Suits

A California federal judge on Thursday trimmed Fair Labor Standards Act claims in two wage-and-hour class actions brought by Nordstrom Inc. salespeople, but allowed their breach of contract and state labor law claims to proceed.

Published Fri, Dec 21 2012 2:13 PM by Law360: Employment

UBS Portfolio Manager Loses Severance Bid At 2nd Circ.

A former portfolio manager for a UBS AG-owned hedge fund who said he was fired after refusing to overvalue securities he traded lost an appeal for severance pay Friday, after the Second Circuit found procedural errors in his case.

Published Fri, Dec 21 2012 1:51 PM by Law360: Employment

Groups Defend 2-Step FLSA Cert. Process At 5th Circ.

An association of employment plaintiffs lawyers and other groups defended the two-step class certification process used in Fair Labor Standards Act suits to the Fifth Circuit on Thursday in an appeal lodged by Wells Fargo that attacks the process as unfair

Published Fri, Dec 21 2012 1:30 PM by Law360: Employment

Gasket Co. Asks Justices To Hear Maritime Asbestos Case

Gasketmaker John Crane Inc. is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to nullify a $2 million award for the family of a repairman who died from asbestos exposure from his maintenance work on Navy ships, arguing that general maritime law does not permit damages

Published Fri, Dec 21 2012 1:27 PM by Law360: Employment

Employers Must Cover Extra Taxes On Backpay Awards: NLRB

In a decision that will impact most labor cases in which backpay is awarded, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday that employers must compensate workers for any extra taxes incurred as a result of their receipt of backpay in a lump sum.

Published Fri, Dec 21 2012 12:19 PM by Law360: Employment

Morgan Lewis, Nonprofit Sued Over Sham Criminal Charges

A former employee of a Philadelphia nonprofit organization sued Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP and the organization in state court on Thursday, alleging that the parties had caused criminal charges, which had previously been rejected, to be reinstated against

Published Fri, Dec 21 2012 11:54 AM by Law360: Employment