December 22, 2025
Baltimore County agreed to pay nearly $1.5 million in a suit lodged by Baltimore County Detention Center inmates who claimed that their work in a recycling plant made them employees entitled to minimum wage.
July 15, 2024
Several legal fights that will dominate the rest of 2024 are variations on the debate around who has the power to make and change laws and who is considered an employee, with the cases challenging the breadth of the U.S. Department of Labor's rulemaking authority in the spotlight. Here, Law360 looks at seven cases to watch in the year's latter half.
June 12, 2023
Baltimore County Detention Center inmates are not considered employees under federal law and are thus not owed minimum wages for the work they perform as part of a rehabilitative program at an off-site recycling center, a Maryland federal judge ruled.