( January 10, 2024, 8:28 AM EST) -- PASADENA, Calif. — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a docket entry gave a mortgage company until Jan. 19 to file a petition for rehearing after a divided panel in a wage-and-hour dispute affirmed a trial court’s restriction on communication between the employer and employees during which workers were discouraged from joining any collective or class and were encouraged settle their claims individually....