The federal judge in Texas who blocked the Obama Labor Department’s overtime rule paused a ruling against Chipotle workers who filed a lawsuit under the defunct rule in New Jersey.
Judge Amos Mazzant of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas March 18 ordered the Chipotle workers to withdraw their lawsuit and granted Chipotle’s motion for contempt against the workers and their lawyers. He said they disregarded his prior decisions against the rule.
Mazzant blocked the Labor Department “from implementing and enforcing” the rule in November 2016. The workers filed the New Jersey lawsuit in June 2017 ...
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