Challenge to Nevada Minimum Wage Law Goes to Federal Court

Workers at Peppermill Casinos Inc., who accuse the company of failing to comply with Nevada’s two-tier minimum wage law, must take their legal challenge to federal court (Abrams v. Peppermill Casinos, Inc., 2017 BL 46554, D. Nev., No. 3:16-cv-00454-MMD-VPC, 2/15/17).

The workers’ state-law claim that Peppermill failed to comply with the minimum wage law by not paying them a higher-tier wage and not offering them a health plan is preempted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, a federal judge in Nevada held Feb. 15. As a result, the judge denied the workers’ request to send ...