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Colorado Supreme Court weighs Amazon’s obligation to pay millions more in overtime
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Members of the state Supreme Court heard on Wednesday that Colorado will be an outlier among all states if its wage regulations require companies to include incentive pay for time worked on holidays when calculating employees’ overtime compensation. At the same time, the justices repeatedly returned to the text of the disputed regulation, which provides…
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Colorado Supreme Court weighs Amazon’s obligation to pay millions more in overtime
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Members of the state Supreme Court heard on Wednesday that Colorado will be an outlier among all states if its wage regulations require companies to include incentive pay for time worked on holidays when calculating employees’ overtime compensation. At the same time, the justices repeatedly returned to the text of the disputed regulation, which provides…
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Colorado Supreme Court to analyze how wage law applies to Amazon holiday pay
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The Colorado Supreme Court recently announced it will decide whether Amazon is complying with the state’s wage law by excluding shifts worked on holidays when calculating employees’ overtime pay. At least three of the court’s seven members must agree to hear an appeal. The case addressing overtime pay came to the Supreme Court through an…
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10th Circuit reverses jury’s $39,000 overtime award due to faulty instruction
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The federal appeals court based in Denver overturned a jury’s award of $39,000 to an oilfield worker on Monday because the trial judge instructed jurors to reach their verdict based on a regulation that was irrelevant to the case. Mark Wilson sued his employer, Schlumberger Technology Corp., alleging the company deliberately failed to pay him…
