Legal Amazon faces class action for not paying workers on military leave
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Amazon boxes are seen stacked for delivery in the Manhattan borough of New York City, January 29, 2016.
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Amazon.com Inc has been hit with a proposed nationwide class action claiming it unlawfully refuses to pay workers who take short-term military leave, even while it provides paid leave for jury duty and bereavement.
Caonaissa Won, an Army reservist and former employee at an Amazon warehouse in New York, filed a complaint in Brooklyn federal court on Thursday accusing the online retail giant of violating the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA).
A federal judge in Washington D.C. has ruled that she lacks jurisdiction over a lawsuit by an administrative law judges' union claiming former President Donald Trump unlawfully stacked an obscure but powerful federal labor panel with anti-union lawyers.
Legal 1st Circuit won t reconsider ruling allowing ICE courthouse arrests
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The full 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has declined to review a panel ruling that said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has the authority to arrest immigrants who are in the country illegally when they make appearances at courthouses in Massachusetts.
The Boston-based appeals court on Tuesday denied panel rehearing and en banc review of the September ruling, which overturned a judge s decision barring courthouse arrests by ICE in a lawsuit by two county prosecutors.
The three-judge panel said it was not for the court to decide whether ICE s strategy of making courthouse arrests is sound public policy, saying that question lies within the domain of the politically accountable branches of the federal and state governments.