Bloomberg Law
March 20, 2018, 7:54 PM UTC

Chipotle Workers Ordered to Drop Obama Overtime Rule Case

Jon Steingart

• Judge reprimands workers, lawyers who filed suit under blocked Labor Department overtime rule • Prior order blocking rule applies to private litigants, judge says

The federal judge in Texas who blocked the Obama-era overtime rule agreed with Chipotle that workers and their lawyers violated his order by filing a lawsuit under the defunct rule in New Jersey. They must now pay the restaurant chain’s litigation fees.

The decision makes clear that the judge’s prior ruling applies to private sector litigants nationwide as well as to the Labor Department. The Chipotle workers argued that they weren’t bound by it because ...

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