Virginia & Ambinder in the Press

“Sometimes communicating online there may be a tendency to be more casual with communications,” said LaDonna Lusher, New York-based partner with Virginia & Ambinder LLP, whose practice focuses on employment and discrimination law and who represents employees. “They need to be conducting business with the professionalism they would normally. Hopefully.”

"I believe that there is a culture at the Bloomberg NYC location that is not adequately addressing discrimination and employee complaints," said Kara Miller, a lawyer representing former Bloomberg employee Andreea Orent, who sued the company in August 2017 alleging discrimination and unlawful retaliation over disability. "That's causing more lawsuits than another company might face, which might have more procedures."

Miller said she's aware of other "actions" and "allegations of discrimination" at the company, though declined to go into detail, citing confidentiality.

"Although defendant and the Union entered into a memorandum of agreement (MOA) in February 2016 that modified the CBA to mandate arbitration for Labor Law claims, plaintiff's employment with defendant ended on approximately August 24, 2015, and neither she nor any other class member who was not employed by defendant when the MOA was entered into is bound by the MOA's arbitration provision"

"Tiara Jocko, a banquet and catering server at the Syracuse hotel since 2013, alleges in the lawsuit filed May 21 in state Supreme Court in Onondaga County that the hotel adds a 22% “service charge” onto banquet customers’ bills but does not give any of the money to its restaurant and catering employees."

"Moosnick said this will be an opportunity for her to gain more experience in traditional union representation to build on her previous work in union employee benefits."

“We hear these stories routinely,” LaDonna Lusher, a lawyer who frequently represents home health aides, tells LaborPress. “It’s really common for them to have to sleep in armchairs next to the patient.” She argues that as aides are required to be at the workplace for 24 hours straight and that care protocols often dictate that they have to turn the patient over every couple hours at night, they are effectively on duty for the full 24 hours.

"Named plaintiffs Savannah Barrows and Michael Mendez allege that since 2013, Chili’s Grill & Bar parent company Brinker International Inc. has failed to pay them the correct minimum wage, withheld their tips and has not provided "spread of hour" compensation, which entitles any restaurant employee whose workday runs longer than 10 hours to receive one hour's pay at the basic minimum hourly wage rate under New York Labor Law."

"Besides neglecting to pay the security guards for “all earned overtime” work, Arroyo said the health care system requires security guards to perform a number of tasks before and after shifts for which they aren’t compensated."

"That’s more than 1,000 employees who could join the lawsuit, Kara Miller, an attorney for the Lululemon employee who filed the lawsuit, told Bloomberg Law Aug. 13."

“We believe it could encompass about 1,000 people,” she said. “We’re obviously happy with the decision.”

“The law changed drastically for these individuals” between the filing of the cases in 2015 and the settlement, which was reached late last year, said LaDonna Lusher, a lawyer for the interns. “When the case was first filed … it seemed that they had a better opportunity to try to prove their claims in court, then several decisions came down that diminished their chances significantly.”

"The suit states that they agreed to leave their jobs with the defendant in exchange for a specified category of free D2 travel pass privileges for the rest of their lives. They allege the defendant stopped providing these passes and instead gave them an inferior category of pass privileges known as D-2R beginning in September 2014 in breach of the contract."