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Texas Tribune Daily Brief
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| Former Uber Driver was an Employee, Rules CA Dept |  | The California Employment Development Department (EDD) determined that a former Uber driver in Southern California was an employee, not an independent contractor as the company has claimed, and the decision was upheld twice after Uber appealed by both an administrative law judge and the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board.
HEATHER SOMERVILLE, Reuters 09/10/2015    | | Read Article: Reuters |
| Miss. Man Files Suit Over Ashley Madison Data Release | | A man from Madison, Mississippi has filed a lawsuit against affair website Ashley Madison after the company's hacking incident recently leaked user data. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Jackson and alleges that the website, which claimed it was the last secure site on the web, had a duty to protect its users' information. The plaintiff is one of about 37 million of the site's customers whose personal information was made vulnerable during the hacking incident.
Jimmie E. Gates, The Jackson Clarion-Ledger 09/09/2015 | | Read Article: The Jackson Clarion-Ledger |
| Judge Affirms $3.7M Overtime Award for Native Oilfield Drivers | | | U.S. District Judge Jane Boyle recently threw out Native Oilfield Services' proposed roadblock against a jury's $3.7 million verdict awarded to former company drivers for disputed overtime wages.The Dallas federal judge held that Native Oilfield was not exempt from providing overtime payments under the Fair Labor Standards Act to its employees. In addition, the judge ruled that the unpaid-hours calculations made by the jury were fair. The case, Olibas v. Native Oilfield Services, was originally filed in September 2011.
Angela Neville, Texas Lawyer 09/01/2015
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