{"id":6096,"date":"2025-05-28T01:29:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T01:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/lecturers-delayed-payment-suit-proceeds-against-boston-university-federal-judge-rules\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T01:29:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T01:29:58","slug":"lecturers-delayed-payment-suit-proceeds-against-boston-university-federal-judge-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/lecturers-delayed-payment-suit-proceeds-against-boston-university-federal-judge-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecturer&#8217;s &#8216;Delayed Payment&#8217; Suit Proceeds Against Boston University, Federal Judge Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>A federal judge has declined to consider the terms of a collective bargaining agreement in a $5 million class action, leaving Boston University to defend itself against claims that it failed to pay its salaried lecturers on a weekly or biweekly basis as required by Massachusetts law. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>On May 23, U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns of the District of Massachusetts <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.alm.com\/94\/71\/38c0e98f4314b4945e8de8104270\/c33184a7-10e7-4da7-9f6a-a688d7ad7911.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">denied the Trustees of Boston University&#8217;s motion to dismiss <\/a>a wage dispute brought by a salaried Rhode Island-based lecturer, Lydia Curtin-Wilding, who claims she never elected to be paid monthly. The plaintiff claims that under the Massachusetts Wage Act, BU was required to pay Curtin-Wilding and other lecturers at least twice a month, but the university was approximately nine days late for the first half of the month from February 2022 to August 2023. Boston University argued that the plaintiff didn&#8217;t have standing under Massachusetts law, and that she was asking for &#8220;an exorbitant sum&#8221; for an &#8220;asserted technical violation,&#8221; which was exempt under federal labor laws. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge has declined to consider the terms of a collective bargaining agreement in a $5 million class action, leaving Boston University to defend itself against claims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[736,818,554,423,6116,4760,265,351,339,858],"class_list":["post-6096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-boston","tag-delayed","tag-federal","tag-judge","tag-lecturers","tag-payment","tag-proceeds","tag-rules","tag-suit","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}