After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Imperial Trading Co. LLC – a convenience store distributor of goods and services based in Elmwood, Louisiana – has paid $24,760 to a former employee for violating the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).
NEW ORLEANS – In an attempt to stop the selling of packaged sandwiches, fruit cups and snack cups that tested positive for a major pathogen, a complaint for permanent injunction was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on June 22 by three agencies of the U.S. government.
NEW ORLEANS – A former field technician has filed a class-action lawsuit against a software company over allegations that he was not paid the appropriate rate for overtime work.
GRETNA – A Jefferson Parish woman is suing Walmart following an incident in which she was allegedly caused to slip and fall on an unmarked wet portion of ground.
The Jefferson Parish Attorney’s Office filed lawsuits in September against eight people accused of illegally driving or lending cars to be driven for Uber in unincorporated parts of the parish.
GRETNA – A local theater is being sued by a woman who claim she is disabled after shattering her elbow in a slip and fall in a bathroom in their building.
A subcontracting electrical company is suing a contractor over a new hurricane protection project for added expenses allegedly due to excessive delays. Fisk Electric Co. filed a complaint on June 25 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against DQSI LLC and Western Surety Co.
