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Velodyne Lidar Inc. was accused in a lawsuit filed Friday of cutting 140 jobs improperly with only one day's notice and using the COVID-19 pandemic as cover for shifting jobs overseas.

The lawsuit filed in federal court says the San Jose-based autonomous driving sensor pioneer should have given workers 60-day notice, according to Bloomberg.

Velodyne said in a written notice that the job cuts were due to the pandemic, according to the lawsuit, but it “had already begun transferring production jobs overseas beginning in the summer of 2019 and had planned to continue doing so prior to the...

Velodyne Lidar Inc., which designs the sensor systems that help driverless cars navigate, was sued for laying off 140 workers with one day’s notice, an early test of whether courts will get involved as the coronavirus wipes out jobs in Silicon Valley.

The San Jose, California-based company -- identified by Uber Technologies Inc. two years ago as its primary supplier of lidar, or light detection and ranging -- is accused of using the virus as an excuse to downsize when it was actually preparing to move production overseas.

The cuts at Velodyne were among more than 5,000 firings of startup...

The wheels of justice usually turn slowly, but the Covid-19 pandemic has put the brakes on litigation of all types, including fund-related lawsuits and 401(k)-fee cases, lawyers say.

Though proceedings in many existing cases have been delayed, plaintiffs are still filing new securities lawsuits and 401(k)-fee cases, court documents show.

Individual state and federal courts have taken different measures to slow the spread of coronavirus, but many have suspended trials and are conducting hearings remotely via video conferences and phone calls.

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Former field organizers for Michael Bloomberg’s campaign have filed two proposed class-action lawsuits in federal court in New York City, making the case that the staffers were terminated after being promised jobs and benefits through November.

One of the lawsuits, which is seeking a minimum of $48 million in damages, argues that Mr. Bloomberg’s campaign “fraudulently induced” staffers into working for him and failed to pay staff overtime wages, in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Donna Wood, who worked in Miami for the former New York City mayor’s presidential bid, is named as the...

WASHINGTON — Michael Bloomberg's presidential campaign is facing a potential class action lawsuit for allegedly promising jobs through November to more than a thousand campaign staffers and then laying them off last week.

A former field organizer, Donna Wood, filed the suit today in U.S. District Court, in the southern district of New York, on behalf of herself and others seeking to get it certified by the court as a class action.

NBC News first reported in January that Bloomberg was planning to fund a major campaign effort through November and was committing to pay staff through then, even...

Mike Bloomberg’s presidential campaign was sued Monday by its former field organizer, alleging that thousands of workers were duped into jobs and not paid overtime only to be laid off when the former New York mayor exited the race. The class-action lawsuit, which was filed in federal court in New York City on Monday, argues that the campaign deprived employees “of promised income and health-care benefits, leaving them and their families potentially uninsured in the face of a global pandemic.” Sally Abrahamson, a lawyer representing the former field organizer named Donna Wood, told The New...

A former Bloomberg campaign staffer filed a proposed class-action lawsuit claiming that the former New York City mayor reneged on promises to pay employees through November 2020 whether or not he won the Democratic presidential nomination.

Donna Wood, who worked as a field organizer for the campaign, noted that many employees left their previous jobs in order to work on the campaign with the understanding that they would continue to be paid until November's election and receive full health care benefits for themselves and their families. Nevertheless, she claimed, the campaign "terminated the...

A former field organizer for Michael Bloomberg’s now-defunct presidential campaign sued on behalf of herself and other former staffers, claiming the candidate promised more than 1,000 staffers jobs through November before laying them off last week.

In the lawsuit filed in federal court Monday, Donna Wood argued the former New York City mayor deprived field organizers “of promised income and health care benefits, leaving them and their families potentially uninsured in the face of a global pandemic.”

Bloomberg, who ended his White House bid after a disappointing Super Tuesday showing, had...

Former field organizers for Michael R. Bloomberg filed two proposed class-action lawsuits against his presidential campaign Monday, arguing that they and thousands of others laid off this month had been tricked into taking jobs they were told would last until November.

The lawsuits, both filed in federal court in New York City, argued that the campaign had recruited staff members to work on Mr. Bloomberg’s bid under false pretenses, preventing them from pursuing other opportunities. One of the suits, brought by a former field organizer in Florida, also alleged the campaign had breached its...