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Outten & Golden LLP, which focuses exclusively on representing employees, is pleased to announce that 5 of the attorneys in its Washington DC office have been recognized as being among the top lawyers in the 2019 editions of Super Lawyers and Rising Stars. In 2018, 28 Outten & Golden attorneys were listed to Super Lawyers and Rising Stars firm-wide.

Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The selection process is multi-phased and includes independent research,...

Children’s clothing retailer Gymboree Group Inc on Wednesday asked a court in Virginia for 60 more days of exclusive control of its bankruptcy in order to resolve lawsuits over its recent termination of an estimated 400 workers.

Gymboree, which is in its second bankruptcy in less than two years, said it needs an extension of its exclusive period for filing a reorganization plan until July 16 to work out the litigation, in a filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Richmond, Virginia.

Gymboree said it has identified funds for paying claims in the lawsuits, one an adversary proceeding in its...

In the #MeToo era and with several major law firms facing related litigation, firms are looking at improving training and policies around gender discrimination and harassment, from summer associates to partners, according to legal observers.

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Summer associates are in an especially vulnerable position as young, short-term employees trying to get full-time offers from the firm, said Outten & Golden LLP employment lawyer Wendi S. Lazar. “There’s incredible pressure on those law students to not complain, to do what they’re told,” she said. “They...

Rejected prospective interns accusing Procter & Gamble Co. of discriminating against those with temporary work authorization under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program have asked a Florida federal court for class certification.

Lead plaintiff and Venezuela native David M. Rodriguez said in Friday's motion that P&G's alleged policy of automatically rejecting candidates without "unrestricted work authorization" uniformly applied to hundreds of non-U.S. citizens who can otherwise legally work in the country, such as DACA recipients, temporary protected status beneficiaries and...

Bankrupt advertising tech firm Sizmek Inc. has been hit by a proposed class action complaint in New York bankruptcy court claiming it laid off dozens of employees from its Manhattan office without warning in January.

Ex-Sizmek employee Jared McKinley Kreiner claimed in a complaint filed Thursday that he and at least 50 others were laid off by the firm on Jan. 31, without the 60-day warning required by the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.

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In the adversary action, Kreiner, who said he was employed at Sizmek...

Many courts require workers alleging job discrimination to compare themselves to similarly situated colleagues who didn’t face bias. A federal appeals court in Atlanta recently suggested it did those workers a favor by relaxing its definition for those comparable coworkers.

But in the same decision, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit also gave employers a boost. The court said judges should thoroughly assess such comparator evidence when workers make their initial showing of discrimination, before employers have to give their reason for taking an allegedly biased action.

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A California federal judge has granted conditional collective action status to unsuccessful job applicants accusing PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP of bias against older candidates, saying the problems that led him to refuse to certify the collective in July had been fixed.

U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar granted lead plaintiffs Steve Rabin and John Chapman's bid for conditional collective action certification on Friday, saying the plaintiffs had adequately narrowed the scope of the group they wanted to represent and noting that PwC would still have another chance to challenge it. Rabin and...

The Labor Department proposed a new regulation April 1 to limit shared wage and hour liability for companies in franchise and staffing arrangements.

The proposed rule narrows the situations in which businesses can be considered “joint employers” of a group of workers. The question often comes up when workers at a franchise restaurant try to sue the franchiser for unpaid minimum wages and overtime. It’s also been at the center of debates over whether companies should be required to bargain with workers provided by a staffing firm.

“This proposal will reduce uncertainty over joint employer...